Hi Arnold, On closer inspection of my plants and online photos, D. stylosa also has longitudinal grooves in the leaves, but they are more faint than in D. capensis or D. zeyheri. D. capensis appears to lack the pale midstripe of D. stylosa (which is sometimes indistinct) and the leaf surface is more glossy than in D. stylosa. I obtained seeds from Silverhill in 2007 and 2008 as D. capensis, from Nieuwoudtville, both of which turned out to be D. stylosa. Also from Silverhill around the same time were ex hort seeds of D. namaquensis. Germination was not strong and 10+ years later the few plants I have still look like seedlings. A friend in Holland reports a very similar experience. Dylan *"The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add an useful plant to its culture…" --**Thomas Jefferson* Today's Topics: > > 1. Fwd: pbs Digest, Vol 58, Issue 17 Re: Daubenya capensis > (Arnold Trachtenberg) > 2. Ferraria densepunctulata (Arnold Trachtenberg) > 3. Re: Ferraria densepunctulata (Judy Glattstein) > 4. Stenomesson pearcei in bloom (Vlad Hempel) > 5. Re: Stenomesson pearcei in bloom (Arnold Trachtenberg) > 6. Re: Stenomesson pearcei in bloom (Vlad Hempel) > 7. Re: Stenomesson pearcei in bloom (Arnold Trachtenberg) > 8. Re: Stenomesson pearcei in bloom (Vlad Hempel) > 9. Re: Ferraria densepunctulata (Terry Laskiewicz) > 10. Re: Ferraria densepunctulata (Nan Sterman) > 11. Pinella tripartita 'Free Tibet' (Paul H Schneider) > 12. Re: Pinella tripartita 'Free Tibet' (Robert Lauf) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 21:55:40 +0000 (UTC) > From: Arnold Trachtenberg <arnold140@verizon.net> > To: "pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net" > <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > Subject: [pbs] Fwd: pbs Digest, Vol 58, Issue 17 Re: Daubenya > capensis > Message-ID: <1049397022.1792240.1639778141360@mail.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Dylan > I hadn't noticed this leaf detail until your email. > I have this as D. zeyheri.? From Croft years ago. > Arnold > > Arnold > > > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>