Hi, The following was sent by James Shields -------------------8<----------------- This little plant has been in my collection for 10 years now, but blooms only sparsely. This cute mini Hippeastrum is from Taipas in Brazil. It still lacks a scientific name, but Mauro Peixoto and his collaborators are working on giving it one. So far. most who grow it are calling it simply Hippeastrum "Taipas." I think its proper designation at this point is Hippeastrum sp. nov. ex Taipas. Mauro offered seeds of this species two or three times. I got the seeds for this plant in 2008. I had a bounteous bloom of Taipas seedlings a few years back and distributed seeds from that year, but have not gotten seeds from them since. I will try again this year, as another plant of Taipas has a scape starting to grow. I am storing some of its pollen just in case. Mauro has not offered seeds of Taipas for several years now. The peduncle is about 42 cm high on this greenhouse-grown specimen, the pedicel is 30 to 35 mm long, and the diameter across the face of flowers, petal tips to petal tips, is 70 mm (2.8 inches). Regis Bastian, in Brazil, thinks this species is probably related to the new Hippeastrum species, H. ramboi, whose naming he participated in. These are exciting time in genus Hippeastrum! James Shields jshields46074@gmail.com P.O. Box 92 Westfield, IN 46074 U.S.A. -- David Pilling http://www.davidpilling.com/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Hippeastrum_sp_nov_Taipas_Nr2361_1235_mL.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 227377 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/…> _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…
