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Heinie

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Gethyllis ciliaris
« on: December 26, 2011, 07:07:52 PM »
I have a pot with a clump of 15 to 20 Gethyllis ciliaris bulbs of which 4 flowers opened on Christmas day for me.

These flowers have some very interesting things about them.

  • It has a very strong fragrance.
  • A bulb only produces one flower that grows directly from the bulb.
  • Each flower has 6 very short filaments with 3 very long anthers on each filament. They could have up to 30 anthers per flower.
  • The anthers roll up to a very short ball on the second day but the style remains very straight and upright and the same length as you will notice on the last 2 photos.

I manually pollinated the flowers and hope to get some seeds from them. Here are a few photos. The first 3 photos were taken yesterday and the last 2 were taken today.












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Re: Gethyllis ciliaris
« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2011, 07:21:16 PM »
congratulations Heine,
I was sent G linearis, it flowered in transit and produced seeds having selfed itsself. so I hope you are as lucky.
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Re: Gethyllis ciliaris
« Reply #2 on: December 26, 2011, 07:33:07 PM »
Peter,

Thank you and thanks for advice of the result of your plant. I cross pollinated the flowers as well with all the pollens mixed. It seems that it was not necessary to mix the pollens but no harm done I guess.
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Re: Gethyllis ciliaris
« Reply #3 on: December 27, 2011, 06:53:45 AM »
Thanks for sharing Heinie

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Re: Gethyllis ciliaris
« Reply #4 on: January 02, 2012, 11:44:51 PM »
Wonderful flowers, Heinie, lovely to see!
Oh, to be able to capture the scent as well to share! ;D
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Re: Gethyllis ciliaris
« Reply #5 on: January 03, 2012, 06:17:50 AM »
Fermi,

Capturing the scent was no problem at all. The scent was destroyed by customs in Australia because they did not have it on their import list.

The scent to Australia was in the bottle in the middle with blue cap. All the other samples arrived at their destinations. 

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Re: Gethyllis ciliaris
« Reply #6 on: January 03, 2012, 06:22:58 AM »
Well, Heinie,
someone at Customs made a mistake! Gethyllis ciliaris is on the "allowed list" as seed so this should include the scent as well!
cheers
fermi
PS of course if your pollinating results in an excess of seeds you know you are free to send some this way!
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Re: Gethyllis ciliaris
« Reply #7 on: January 03, 2012, 06:37:31 AM »
Fermi

You are tooooooo good for this world  ;D

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Re: Gethyllis ciliaris
« Reply #8 on: January 03, 2012, 08:29:56 AM »
Heinie what an utterly fascinating bulb. Must keep an eye out for it. Do all the Gethyllis species do that?
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