Dear Alberto: Thank you for your nice pictures. One of the clues given about the Mystery Bulb, was that the leaves sheath the stem. Neither of the species you kindly sent have this character, nor do they, in my opinion, curl as much. Because of this I think we are left with H. armancaes, but this species has more yellow flowers, H. narcissiflora, but this has narrow green bands in the flowers, and H. virescens, but this has a greenish hue. However H. virescens now contains H. pedunculata, which has pure white flowers, and thus should be considered variable, and it has leaves which sheath the lower stem. I am, because of this, inclined to think the Mystery Bulb is H. virescens, and I would say that only by seeing the actual plant can we identify it. I do not think we are too far off. But as there are some 30+ species, identification with certitude is not easy! Thanks again for the photographs. Cheers, John E. Bryan "crinum@libero.it" wrote: > > Dear John and all, > I have added the two picture: > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/… > > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/… > > Carol confirms that her plants have a long stem (false stem) but littoralis and harrisiana have a fan of basal leaves. > Ciao > Alberto > Italy > > ---------- Initial Header ----------- > > >From : pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org > To : "Pacific Bulb Society" pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > > Cc : > Date : Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:00:30 -0700 > Subject : Re: re [pbs] Mystery bulb > > > Dear Alberto > > Please do. Cheers, John E. Bryan > > > > Alberto Grossi wrote: > > > > > > Flowers of littoralis and harrisiana are far longer different. I grow all three of them. The corona in these species is smaller and open. If you want I can add the pictures of these flowers to the wiki. > > > Alberto > > > Italy > > > > > > ---------- Initial Header ----------- > > > > > > >From : pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org > > > To : pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > > > Cc : > > > Date : Wed, 15 Jun 2005 09:24:28 -0700 > > > Subject : [pbs] Mystery Bulb > > > > > > > > > > > The 'mystery flower' posted by Susan Hayek looks to me like a > > > > Hymenocallis, possibly H. littoralis or H. harrisiana. Cheers, John E. > > > > Bryan > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > pbs mailing list > > > > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > > > > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > > > _______________________________________________ > > > pbs mailing list > > > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > > > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > > _______________________________________________ > > pbs mailing list > > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > > > > Alberto Grossi > Italy > > ____________________________________________________________ > Navighi a 4 MEGA e i primi 3 mesi sono GRATIS. > Scegli Libero Adsl Flat senza limiti su http://www.libero.it/ > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php
