2 Watsonias for confirmation

Mary Sue Ittner msittner@mcn.org
Mon, 09 Apr 2018 10:39:45 PDT
In the Color Encyclopedia and I think on the wiki as well W. humilis is 
15 to 40 cm and W. laccata 30 to 40 cm tall. Besides often being shorter 
W. humilis doesn't usually have as many flowers per spike. If you look 
at the key in that book, one of the earlier separators is

flower tube short or long but gradually flaring above - eventually gets 
to W. laccata
bracts for that species are 10 to 20 mm, clasping the stem

flower tube long, slender below but widening abruptly into a broadly 
cylindrical upper part - eventually gets to W. humilis. The bracts are 
an important way to identify them. W humilis - bracts 20 to 30 mm long 
overlapping and keeled in the midline

John Manning once wrote that  unless you control for pollination, 
resultant seed will turn out to produce a hybrid which makes 
identification to a species level when looking at plants a challenge.

Mary Sue


On 4/9/2018 9:04 AM, Chad Schroter wrote:
> The other is from seed received as W. humilis,  but I am thinking should be W. laccata. They are just over 12" tall, though this is the first year for bloom from 4" pots so they could be stunted.
>

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