Jan. 2025

Started by Arnold, January 04, 2025, 01:32:25 PM

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Arnold

Veltheimia bracteata
Arnold T.
North East USA

Too Many Plants!

Here's an updated pic of L. Viridiflora pushing new leaves out. We just had a couple days of rainy weather, and probably got around an inch to two of rain. A nice drink for my many SA bulbs pushing new growth!

Too Many Plants!

Here's a Rogue post from my SA Garden (well, mostly), of some Winter POW 💥 for y'all...

Aloe Ferox, standard color form, and White Flower form!

Diane Whitehead

Diane Whitehead        Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
cool mediterranean climate  warm dry summers, mild wet winters  70 cm rain,   sandy soil

Carlos

Very nice!

There is a trend in Spain of naming fertile versions of normally sterile Narcissus hybrids as new species, called 'nomospecies'. Others think that simply the name of the hybrid without the '×' sign should be used, but there are still F1 sterile hybrids, so I don't agree. How a fertile version is formed is s bit more technical, but basically they arise from the fusion of unreduced gametes, so the offspring has a double number of chromosomes.

This was described as the fertile version of Narcissus × tuckeri, or N. blancoi × N. fernandesii, and was called Narcissus vilchezii, after.a count or something named Vílchez, who founded the village of Vilches (Andalusians pronounce z and s the same, when they don't just skip all final s).

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Two versions of fernandesii / cordubensis

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And one romieuxii 'zaianicus' (which I believe that came from Dylan Hannon as seeds in 2020 or 21), sharing the pot with Narcissus obesus.

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The smell of the zaianicus is 'foxy' as in cantabricus and peroccidentalis, so it is very likely that romieuxii is one of the parents of peroccidentalis, which I believe is the 'fertile version' of the ancient hybrid.

Carlos Jiménez
Valencia, Spain, zone 10
Dry Thermomediterranean, 450 mm

CG100

Interesting comment about fertility occurring in hybrids, @Carlos 

Memory is not infallible, but my recollection of this involves the popular, somewhat less difficult to grow hybrid Meconopsis - x Sheldonii. Memory tells me that this happened due to hexaploid plants occuring.

Reading your post again, this is perhaps what us less technical people should take from you comment about unreduced gametes?

Too Many Plants!

And...ANOTHER exciting first flowering from a fall 2024 BX acquisition!

Lachenalia Carnosa - this first leafing and flowering is very small.

Once more, a Big Thank You to those PBS folks that share the bulb Love!!

Arnold

Gladiolus venustus
Velthiemia bracteata
Arnold T.
North East USA

Arnold

Boophone haemanthoides A bulb that was received in our summer months  from the South African Bulb Company        (thanks Leigh and Johann) group order. Spent the summer months in the basement under lights water withheld.  When temps cooled placed in the greenhouse and burst into growth
Arnold T.
North East USA

Too Many Plants!