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From Etlingera on Friday 10th of July 2026 05:21:57 PM PDT
Etlingera corneri Mood & Ibrahim also known by the exotic name of Siam Rose, is native to Thailand. Height range: 4-6 ft. The photos below were taken at the Lyon Arboretum, Honolulu HI by Nhu Nguyen.
From Disporum on Thursday 9th of July 2026 05:09:09 PM PDT
Disporum flavens Kitag. (syn. Disporum sessile ssp. flavens (Kitag.) H.S.Kim) is native to Korea and China and bears bright yellow terminal flowers on leafy stems shortly after emerging from dormancy in the spring. Height range: 2-3 ft. Photo taken April 2007 by Jay Yourch. In 2025 both Plants of the World Online and World Flora Online state the accepted name for this species is Disporum uniflorum Baker, but it is still listed as D. flavens elsewhere.
From European And Mediterranean Romuleas on Wednesday 8th of July 2026 05:08:41 PM PDT
Romulea linaresii Parl. is found East Aegean Islands, Greece, Crete, Sicily, Tunisia, and Turkey. It is similar to Romulea ramiflora but each bract has a membranous margin and the entire flower is violet. Height: 5-10 cm. Photos from iNaturalist taken by David Renoult in February in Sicily and shared under a CC BY-NC license.
Romulea linaresii ssp. graeca Bég. is native to Greece, Crete and western Turkey where it grows in wet spots in open woodland, pastures, and shrubby vegetation and flowers February to April. Flowers are smaller than the type, violet purple with yellow anthers above the stigma. Photos from iNaturalist taken by Georgios Mesimeris in Greece in March and shared under a CC BY-NC-SA license.
From Bomarea on Tuesday 7th of July 2026 05:25:19 PM PDT
Bomarea salsilla (L.) Mirb. is a deciduous climbing species from Chile that flowers in late spring/early summer. The first photo was taken by Rob Hamilton, the second by Bob Rutemoeller in Harry Hay's gardens, and the third taken by David Victor of a plant growing in his greenhouse and flowering in May 2005. The fourth photo taken by Mary Sue Ittner of the storage organ during dormancy on a 1 cm square grid
From Disporum on Monday 6th of July 2026 05:04:30 PM PDT
Disporum sessile D.Don ex Schult. & Schult.f. carpets low-elevation woods in Taiwan, Japan, Korea (Cheju and Ullung islands), and Russia (S Kurile Islands and S Sakhalin). It grows to 15-60 cm (6-24"). Pictured in Japan by Mari Kitama in photo 1. Photo 2 from Paige Woodward shows the rhizome and a shoot. She reports that her plants, of Japanese origin, are hardy to Zone 6, perhaps colder and bloom April to May 1-3 with creamy, tubular, green-mouthed bells at the tip of each stalk.
From Schizochilus on Sunday 5th of July 2026 05:17:39 PM PDT
Schizochilus zeyheri Sond. is found in montane grassland from the Eastern Cape to the Northern Province of South Africa. It is tuberous and has large bright yellow flowers in a dense nodding spike. Height range: 5-80 cm. Photos by #1-5 taken by Cameron McMaster in the Eastern Cape. Photo #2 was taken at Mt. Thomas and photo #3 at Gaika's Kop. Photos #4-5 were taken at Satansnek Pass. Photo #6 from Bob Rutemoeller was also taken at Satansnek Pass.
From Devia on Saturday 4th of July 2026 05:01:04 PM PDT
Devia xeromorpha Goldblatt & J.C.Manning is a local endemic of the Roggeveld found near Sutherland. It has a many flowered one-sided spike of long-lived trumpet-shaped pink flowers. Not discovered until the 1980s, it grows in dense clumps and with long narrow, sharp tipped leaves it looks more like the native grasses that grow in the same habitat. Its common name is Ribleaf. It flowers late in the season, in November and December, usually after it has stopped raining. Height range: 10-30 cm. The photo from iNaturalist was taken by Nick Helme in November in the Roggeveld and shared under a CC BY-SA license
From Empodium on Friday 3rd of July 2026 05:41:19 PM PDT
Empodium flexile (Nel) M.F.Thomps. ex Snijman occurs from Namaqualand to Oudtshoorn on clay or sand on stony flats. Growing to 20 cm, it has three pleated leaves, usually dry at flowering, or just appearing. Flowers are pleasantly scented, bright yellow and appear from autumn to early winter after the first good rain.
Photos below from the book Plants of the Klein Karoo courtesy of Jan and Anne Lise Schutte-Vlok.
From Hyacinthus on Thursday 2nd of July 2026 07:21:56 PM PDT
Hyacinthus orientalis L. is native to the Eastern Mediterranean and is planted in autumn and dried off in summer. Height: 15-30 cm.
Hyacinthus orientalis ssp. chionophilus Wendelbo is an alpine subspecies from Turkey. This form has been easy to grow in Northern California, in a pot kept dry in summer. It has not increased so I usually plant it with something else. It usually blooms in March. Photos by Mary Sue Ittner taken different years. The last shows the bulb on a 1 cm grid.
Photos from Rimmer de Vries of plants grown from seed (BATMAN 423) from the Gothenburg Botanic Garden started in 2007 and 2008. Batman is a city in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey and the capital of Batman Province. It lies on a plateau, 540 meters above sea level, near the confluence of the Batman River and the Tigris.
Hyacinthus orientalis ssp. orientalis is a recognized subspecies with a synonym of Hyacinthus orientalis ssp. albulus. The photo below is of a long lasting heirloom bulb in the Southern USA known as var. albulus that is probably this subspecies. This specimen was collected in Navasota, TX and is self-fertile. Photo by Cynthia W. Mueller.
Photos from Rimmer de Vries of plants grown from seed (BATMAN 014) from the Gothenburg Botanic Garden. Notice the difference in the leaves between the BATMAN collection seed examples of the two sub-species; ssp chinophilus (above) has wider flatter rather glaucous leaves and ssp orientalis has more upright green and canoe shaped leaves.
Here is a similar blue-flowered form which has grown in the Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, zone 7 garden of Jim McKenney for perhaps forty years. It's nothing to look at, but the fragrance is wonderful!
From Hyacinthella on Wednesday 1st of July 2026 06:51:03 PM PDT
Hyacinthella glabrescens (Boiss.) K.Perss. & Wendelbo has greyish-green glabrous leaves and deep violet blue tubular flowers on long pedicels. It is native to Turkey, especially the Taurus Mountains. Height range: 30-45 cm. Photographs by David Nicholson and John Lonsdale.
