ROSCOEA-2012

[ronm]

R. auriculata

Always the last to flower for us. Perhaps not the most classy of the Roscoea, and sometimes the clumps look a bit scruffy ( as ours do in these pictures ), but its one of the easier ones and clumps up quickly. Often confused with R.purpurea.

[shelagh]

Only have the one Roscoea a gift from Peter Farkasch and here it is R. Red Gurkha (not sure if I have the H in the right place there

[Botanica]

Oh Roscoea 

I love this plant , i offered to me most than one hundred plants

I have not R. Red Gurkha  !








Some seeds in this year, not a good quantity 




If you've some seed of  other species ...i was very interested to test that !

[Botanica]

It's my Roscoea in beginning of the year when i received plants.



Wonderful photo  of the result few month later (Photo by  a friend-Foromist <<flupke>> with whom I made a bulk purchase of Roscoea )







Great success.

[annew]

Collecting seeds for exchanges - I got this small species as R. alpina. Is this the right name?

[ronm]

No, sorry Anne, its R.scillifolia scillifolia.
A very tough resilient sp. and a profligate seed producer. Also available in black ( well very dark purple ) as R. scillifolia atropurpurea.
A lovely plant 

[annew]

Thanks Ron! I agree with both descriptions.

[ronm]

Glad to help Anne, 

There is a lot of variation with R. scillifolia scillifolia. The leaves can be long and thin, (on tall 20cm plants), or short and fat ( on squat 10 cm plants ). The degree of exsertion of the flowers is also very variable. All forms are still very prolific in the seed production, and will flower easily in their second year.