Greetings,
Sorry to misspell your name, Mary Sue. The mis-identified bulb in the image could also be a Eucomis perhaps.
Rather than make this only a typo correction email, I thought I'd toss in a few shots of my Boophones. The first is a haemanthoides and the second is sp. Aus.
-|<ipp
> From: kimcmich@hotmail.com
> To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:15:16 -0800
> Subject: Re: [pbs] Eastern Cape Trip
>
>
> Marry Sue,
>
> I envy your trip!
>
> The H. albiflos image is not of H. albiflos - I doesn't seem to be a Haemanthus at all. Perhaps a Scadoxus?
>
> -|<ipp
>
> > Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 07:34:36 -0800
> > To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org
> > From: msittner@mcn.org
> > Subject: Re: [pbs] Eastern Cape Trip
> >
> > Although much of the Eastern Cape is grassland, we found a lot of
> > plants growing on rock faces or in crevices in rocks. Some of these
> > were impossible to get close enough to photograph. Yesterday I showed
> > pictures of a couple of plants growing on rocks. Today there are some
> > we saw in Glen Avon.
> >
> > The first was selected as the plant of the day, Scadoxus puniceus. We
> > already have it well pictured on the wiki, but here are a few more of
> > it growing in rock crevices or near rocks (second row of photos).
> > <http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…>
> >
> > In the same area another plant growing on rocks close enough to
> > photograph was Haemanthus albiflos (last photo).
> > <http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…>
> >
> > Yesterday I referenced an Agapanthus praecox. Here are a couple more
> > habitat photos of it. The one in Glen Avon was impossible to get very
> > close to. Also on the rocks was a Cyrtanthus, probably C. macowanii
> > but the experts had interesting discussions each evening about what
> > we saw and it seems C. macowanii and C. epiphyticus in the wild are
> > challenging to tell apart. I'll be adding more photos of the two of
> > them later where we were close enough to get a better photo. The
> > other photos of Agapanthus praecox were taken at Gaika's Kop. (first
> > row of photos) It does seem like some of the Agapanthus praecox we
> > saw in the wild have spectacular views.
> > <http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…>
> >
> > Finally at Glen Avon we also saw growing in a rock crevice,
> > Chlorophytum comosm.
> > <http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…>
> >
> > Mary Sue
> >
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