Pink Rhodophiala bifida bloom time

Robt R Pries rpries@sbcglobal.net
Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:37:10 PDT
Tony; It has been alledged that the common red
flowered Rhodolphiala across the south is a sterile
triploid. Supposedly it is also a sturdier plant
because of this. Do you see any of the red flowered
forms setting seed and are they really different in
vigor from the red-flowered plants that came from you
pink flowered seed?


--- Tony Avent <tony@plantdelights.com> wrote:

> Diana:
> 
> We got our original Rhodophiala bifida carmine pink
> from seed sent in by 
> Alberto Castillo several years ago.  Our original
> plants set seed and we 
> now have about 750 flowering size 3-year old plants
> in ground beds.  
> Most are exactly like the typical red R. bifida
> except for some oddballs 
> with narrow petals, and some shorter than normal. 
> For us typical R. 
> bifida flowers in early-mid September.  The first of
> these carmine pink 
> seedlings flowered in late July-early
> August...probably about 10 
> plants.  A few flowered in mid-August...probably
> another 10 plants, and 
> the majority are just beginning to flower now.  We
> get a small 
> percentage of a stunning ruby-red flowered forms
> from these seed also.  
> There is obviously a great deal of variability in
> color, form, and bloom 
> time.  Once again, a thanks to Alberto for sharing
> these new genetics.
>  
> 
> Tony Avent
> Plant Delights Nursery @
> Juniper Level Botanic Garden
> 9241 Sauls Road
> Raleigh, North Carolina  27603  USA
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> 
> 
> 
> Diana Chapman wrote:
> > Hi Lee:
> >
> > Yes mine do the same thing, although I have two
> different clones of the pink 
> > R. bifida, and one has already bloomed, while the
> other is just sending up 
> > buds.  Honestly, I can't see why the pink one is
> called R. bifida, since it 
> > seems quite a bit different from the red one in
> form, being much smaller and 
> > daintier, tepals more pointed, striated, etc., but
> I call it R. bifida Pink 
> > Form because everyone else does.  The other clone
> I have was collected from 
> > the Buenos Aires region and is also a slightly
> darker pink - this is the one 
> > that blooms earlier.
> >
> > Diana
> > Telos Rare Bulbs
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> >
> >   
> >> Along with some oporanthous bulbs such as a
> Lycoris x albiflora that is
> >> slightly tinged with a hint of pink, and several
> Amaryllis (or possibly
> >> Amarygias) of various colors, I had all of my
> pink Rhodophiala bifidas
> >> bloom the past couple of weeks and none of the
> red ones have bloomed
> >> (yet), including those in a large pot of mixed
> colors (reds and pinks)
> >> from seeds I think Alberto Castillo sent out to a
> BX a number of years
> >> ago. Does anyone know why that might be?
> >> (Especially since almost all of the pink ones
> have now wilted, possibly
> >> because of this ridiculous heat wave we've had
> that ended this morning.
> >> Yet there isn't even a sign of scape tips
> emerging from the red
> >> flowered ones. Thus, the red blooming will be
> separated from the pink
> >> blooming by a month or even more.)
> >>
> >> --Lee Poulsen
> >> Pasadena, California, USDA Zone 10a
> >>
> >>     
> >
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