Polygonatum, but ID please?

[Hoy]

Hoy,

This plant is great, very unlike the zanlanscianense I have. Would you like to swap seeds in autumn? I'd love some seed of yours.

Michael

Hello Michael

Been abroad for 3 weeks!
I'll certainly swap if I get seeds. I'll tell you when I get home in a week or so.

Trond

[dscherberich]

Aaron,

I will take detailed pictures of both next year to compare. I can send you seeds or better some rhizomes as I have some nice clumps if you want. The Wolong one I have is a globally smaller plant, the leaves are darker green, smaller and more spaced and the texture is thinner too. I have not been at the right altitude on Emei Shan to find the plant. If I go there again I will try to look for it ...

[Afloden]

 Does it look the plant in post #43 here? http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2033.30

 Polygonatum yunnanense should have peduncle bracts present on it. Dissected it should have filaments papillose distally and cottony proximally. Polygonatum omeiense is cottony throughout and P. adnatum glabrous; there perianth sizes differ also and the latter two don't have the prominent peduncle bracts.

 Hopefully I'll be in China next spring, especially Sichuan, but also Chongqing and maybe Hainan.

 Aaron


 Edit by Maggi: direct link to the post Aaron mentions is:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2033.msg140305#msg140305

 

[dscherberich]

Does it look the plant in post #43 here? http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2033.30

Yes I think it is the same, I forgot to mention the maculate stem. This is the one I know from Wolong. I have only seen it there, growing on rocks at 1900m. So this one would match P. yunnanense?

I have never been to Chongqing but it is certainly a very exciting place, as is Hainan too! Is there a particular Polygonatum there?

[Afloden]

 The specimens I have from Ogisu and Darrell Probst are both from around Wolong and seem to match the type of P. yunnanense well.

 Yes, there is one from Hainan at upper elevations (ca. 1300 m). Hainan has numerous endemics and I think this Polygonatum may be endemic also, but there is a specimen collected in Guangdong also.

 Aaron

[WimB]

A very small Polygonatum (12 cm heigh) which I received without a name from a friend.

Does anyone have an idea which species it could be?

[Ulla Hansson]

I think it looks like Polygonatum humile.

[WimB]

Thanks Ulla,

someone on the VRV forum said exactly the same and your both right I think!

[johnw]

I wonder if anyone can identify the species of Polygonatum?  At Memorial University of Newfoundland Botanical Garden Monday............and why always the peat bed?

johnw

[Maggi Young]

Are you sure it's not Disporum flavum?

[Paul T]

So cool to see wild moose. 

[Hoy]

It definitely is moose; all the plants seem to have labels, so why don't you go to read them