Boophone haemanthoides in bloom at UCBG

Paul Licht plicht@berkeley.edu
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:28:53 PDT
  By the way, the Brunsvigia marginata is also open today. Very 
spectacular deep red.

Paul Licht, Director
Univ. California Botanical Garden
200 Centennial Drive
Berkeley, CA 94720
(510)-643-8999
http://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/


On 9/8/2010 6:56 PM, Jacob Knecht wrote:
> Dear members,
>
> Here are pictures of the ripening Boophone haemanthoides inflorescence at
> the UCBG one month after anthesis:
>
> http://flickr.com/photos/morabeza79/…
> http://flickr.com/photos/morabeza79/…
> http://flickr.com/photos/morabeza79/…
> http://flickr.com/photos/morabeza79/…
> http://flickr.com/photos/morabeza79/…
>
> I have added these pictures to our wiki along with a superb emergent foliage
> picture by Nhu Nguyen:
> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…
>
> Thank you for all the positive feedback last month when I posted pictures of
> the blooms.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Jacob Knecht
> Berkeley, California
>
>
> On 5 August 2010 23:11, Jacob Knecht<jacobknecht@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> I heard that the large Boophone haemanthoides was coming into bloom,
>> so today I made a quick visit to the University of California Berkeley
>> Botanical Garden just to see it.  Turns out this one cream-coloured
>> (instead of pink) and smells lovely!
>>
>> Pictures:
>> http://flickr.com/photos/morabeza79/…
>> http://flickr.com/photos/morabeza79/…
>> http://flickr.com/photos/morabeza79/…
>> http://flickr.com/photos/morabeza79/…
>> http://flickr.com/photos/morabeza79/…
>>
>> Anyone who can, should come see this.  It will be an ongoing show as
>> the inflorescence expands into a magnificent infructescence!
>>
>> Jacob Knecht
>>
>>
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