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So 2024 is coming to an end.

Best wishes for 2025. 


Acis tingitana

Colchicum (Androcymbium) europaeum

Quote from: Too Many Plants! on December 29, 2024, 11:03:41 AM

Quote from: Carlos on December 29, 2024, 01:49:42 AMHi

Well, Aizoaceae are not even remotely allied to geophytes, at least to true bulbous plants in class Liliopsidae (monocots).

I didn't mean it literally, or that it is in any way genetically related. Just as an SA collecting fan, in a fun-loving way, it's a habitat cousin/neighbor to our many SA bulbs, and it is also a resource-storing survival plant.

One thing to keep in mind when I post...we are in no way botanists, of scientific background, and our interests/views don't come from a place of scientific/botanist thinking and strictly science. Our point of view is from a place of being Garden/landscape plant geeks with a fascination and passion for plants, their beauty, unusual shapes/forms/colors, and the interest they bring to our Garden!

I understand, sorry. I am thinking of taxonomy most of the time, I can't help it.

Yes. 5-6  minimum, 14-17  maximum during last week. Some more cold and rain forecasted for new year's eve.

Fuerteventura is warmer, but they will cope with it. I need cold for the Narcissus.

Wild Dipcadi serotinum. First photos show plants on a southern exposure, a bit stressed. The two last ones of plants growing in shade.

I saw over 50 plants and not the slightest sign of a flowering scape, but that's what is to be expected of serotinum.

Oron Peri messaged me and he was surprised at how big the siblings of my Dipcadi fulvum that I sent to him are (also in flower at his place). They are not  'big', that's the size of fulvum.




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Hi

I sowed the Androcymbium psammophilum ex Fuerteventura island from the SX and some seedlings are showing up. About 45-60 days after.

Hi

Well, Aizoaceae are not even remotely allied to geophytes, at least to true bulbous plants in class Liliopsidae (monocots). 

But Moraea pritzeliana is

Hi, I'm glad that you got the card. Sow everything quickly, I already have seedlings on what I sowed from the same batches.

I say yes to arborescent Aloe as my Bolivian contact likes them and he will give wild Hippeastrum in return (he is working with a national herbarium, he is not a poacher). 

Happy new year!!

I wonder 'how many plants' do you have...

G. equitans is really cool! I spent a little fortune on small portions of about 25 species from Seeds and all, they took three months to arrive and nothing sprouted, so I was quite deceived, specially by the seller. I am about to be equally deceived by Julian Slade in Australia. I mean, I am good at making seeds sprout. And I send good seeds, usually for free or against other seeds. 

Seeds and small bulbs from SX are doing quite well, but more uncommon species are hard to come by. 

Hi, I have messaged him a few times this year. I missed the list last January but managed to order a couple of bulbs. Expensive, but good.

Maybe a grower to avoid if you are really concerned about collecting from the wild. He has collaborated with botanists but I have doubts that he had permits when needed. But maybe the botanists had.


 

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I started with Gethyllis, here the Oligophylla

Hi, Jane, thanks.

I have been using that for years, but yesterday it was not working. I firtst looked it up on the Hathi Trust site and it seems that the Ohio University library has this issue, but then it didn't show up on the search I did on their site. 

Many libraries (University libraries, above all) do not scan documents for external individuals... As a last resource, the university where I studied has a "documentation office", you have to pay but they find really hard to find things.

Carlos

Hi, if anyone has this issue, I'd really appreciate to have the title and page range of a papeer published by A. Worsley, where he recombined Amarillys correiensis as Hippeastrum correiense (Bury) Worsley. 

The reference I got is: The Gardeners' chronicle: a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects ser.3 v.85: 377. 1929

But according to the Biodiversity Library, the journal was "succeeded" by Gardeners chronicle & gardening illustrated, but I'm not sure if that applies to vol. 85.  The link on the BHL is not working. 

I wonder if the copyright period is of 100 years in this case, as it seems that BHL is now adding a new issue each year, the last one being that of 1923. I prefer not to wait until 2030.

Thanks

Comments:

The flowers of rupicola are double in size or more, and the corona is expanded, a bit like a disk,or like a very 'open', almost convex bowl. And the leaves are thinner and not always upright, usually not so glaucous. Yes, it almost always bears only one flower, but that's not a reliable trait to tell apart nany species.

Calcicola can have 1-3 flowers, which are quite small like in scaberulus (but scaberulus has quite different leaves). These very plants were sent to me from NW Portugal (no permit needed) and some had one, others 2, and a few three flowers. Now they are in a very different climate. They normally bloom in March - April.

I have always failed in germinating rupicola, it seems that it needs a too acid substrate that I can't recreate here. For these calcicola I brought ground pink granite from a beach in the Costa Brava, 450 km to the North, and earth  + lava chippings from a beech forest on volcanic rocks at the foot of the Pyrenees, 100 km more to the NE.

But here is true rupicola:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/213418860

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/217351187

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/232454627

A comparative plate with all Iberian Apodanthi:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323967836_A_new_species_of_Narcissus_sect_Apodanthi_Amaryllidaceae_from_the_western_Iberian_Peninsula/figures?lo=1


It seems that some / several nurseries (Beth Chatto, etc) have been offering calcicola as rupicola.

Narcissus calcicola. it blooms in March or April in habitat. My phone refuses to focus well on yellow flowers.

Hi again, I was puzzled by how different your plant looks from the photos of brevifolia I have seen... I asked two colleagues and it's Erica azorica, the Azorean tree heath, related toErica canariensis and Erica arborea.

Brevifolia subsp. maritima seems to occur only at the Miradouro de Alagoa.

Juniperus Alagoa - Terceira