Tulipa seedlings in flower

Eugene Zielinski eez55@earthlink.net
Tue, 13 Mar 2018 13:55:31 PDT
The Tulips in the Wild website has an impressive image of a colony of Tulipa regelii.
http://www.tulipsinthewild.com/pages/page7.html
Actually, this site has impressive images of many species tulips.
I've seen seed of T. regelii offered on Ebay, by a Russian vendor, I think.

Eugene Zielinski
Prescott Valley, Arizona
USA

-----Original Message-----
>From: Jane McGary <janemcgary@earthlink.net>
>Sent: Mar 13, 2018 12:39 PM
>To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>
>Subject: [pbs] Tulipa seedlings in flower
>
>Two interesting tulips grown from seed have produced their first 
>flowers. Tulipa regelii, grown from seed obtained from the Archibalds 
>and sown in fall 2009, has five clones, three of which are flowering. 
>This species is grown primarily for its fascinating foliage, which 
>displays longitudinal ridges or crests. I hope to put a photo on the 
>wiki when I can take the time to learn the new method. Near it in the 
>bulb house is Tulipa koktebelica, now treated by Kew as a synonym of T. 
>biflora, grown from seed supplied by Kurt Vickery and sown in 2012. Both 
>are small plants and have rather small flowers, white with yellow 
>centers inside and tinted grayish pink on the outside. I will try to 
>hand-pollinate them, and perhaps the mason bees recently introduced to 
>the bulb house will help...
>
>Jane McGary, Portland, Oregon, USA
>
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