Dear All, From a November 2018 sowing of seed from Oron Peri I have this potful of Lachenalia viridiflora. It is the form with spotted leaves. A sowing of the same age of Silverhill Seeds is also flowering now but with plain green leaves. The flowers are the same, both show some colour variation. Yesterday on a sunny day I hand pollinated the flowers. I wonder how they are being pollinated in nature with such an unusual color. It would be interesting to compare with an ultraviolet photo. The mouth of the individual flower is very narrow, I had some difficulty to insert a small paintbrush but then there was a lot of pollen. Only by doing this I discovered that the stigma is hair thin and protruding one or two millimeters from the mouth. But not in all of the flowers, only in the older ones. I compared with another picture I took some days earlier and there are no visible stigmata. I hope for all of us that my attempts to pollinate the flowers are successful..... Does anybody know about the pollinators in habitat? All the best and greetings from mild and rainy weather, Uli The first picture is an earlier one without visible stigmata, the second picture was taken today with short white stigmata protruding and the third one is an enlargement showing the details in the blue circle. All pictures from the same pot. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image1.jpeg Type: image/jpeg Size: 128099 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/…> -------------- next part -------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image2.jpeg Type: image/jpeg Size: 120607 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/…> -------------- next part -------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image3.jpeg Type: image/jpeg Size: 126617 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/…> -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>
