Ammocharis 2009

[Alberto]

Hi all, it is the second year this bulbs flowers with me: Ammocharis nerinoides. This year two spikes sprout among the base of the leaves, just at soil level. One spike with 3 flowers and the other with 6. Once it was named Crinum nerinoides. It is strongly scented as the other 2 members of this genus, already showed in this post.

Alberto
Ammocharis nerinoides

[Paul T]

Wow, Alberto.  The flowers really ARE nerine-like aren't they.  The nicest of the genus I've seen so far, flower-wise.  How big are the individual flowers?  Does it flower without the leaves as well?

Thanks for the great pics.

[Alberto]

Hi Paul, I am agree with you: they look like Nerine! The stalk is about 15 cm high, the leaves, present at blooming are filiform, just a few mm wide. The flowers are large thinking to the leaves, long 10 cm and each tepal about 5 cm. The bulb doesn't need a large pot, 4 bulbs can stay in a 20 cm pot.

Alberto

[Paul T]

Alberto,

Thanks for the extra info.  Definitely one I shall add to my "must look out for" list.    It's a Loooooooong list unfortunately, mainly due to the SRGC forum. 

 

[Hans J]

Here is a update of my A.tinneana :

I have carefull pollinatet the flowers ....but after some days I have thinking that the pllination was not succsessfull 

...now last sunday I saw on the ground the fruits emerge ( never seen before on other Amaryllidacae )

here is a pic :

[Alberto]

Hans, in the first picture you posted you can see that ovaries are below the neck of the bulb; so it is why fruits are emerging now.

Alberto

[Hans J]

Alberto ,

thank you for your explanation !
Could you please later post a pic when your A.nerinoides has fruits ?

[Paul T]

Fascinating, Hans.  I wonder if you'll find that all the flowers do come from a single stem and it gradually emerges.  I wondered that when you originally posted the pics of the flowers emerging straight from the bulb.  congratulations on the seed..... always particularly welcome when you have something so unusual and hard to replace.  Great stuff!! 

[Hans J]

Thanks Paul 

I will also looking out for Amm. nerinoides - a other thing on my wish list 

[Paul T]

Hans,

I'm learning so much here about the Ammocharis and adding so many more of them to my wants list as well.  I have some A. coronarica that have never flowered for me yet, but have never seen any other of the genus at all until here.   

[Renate Brinkers]

Hi Hans, Alberto, Alessandro,

wonderful Ammocharis pictures, the fruits are really special. Do anyone knows how long it could take from seed to flower of A.coranica?

[Alberto]

Renate, my 4 years aged seedlings are far from blooming!

Alberto

[Renate Brinkers]

Alberto,
oh, so it takes some more time....

[Afloden]

 I have over a dozen 8 year old plants from seed that still have not flowered. I plant several outside last summer and they survived the winter with two nights at 7F and 12 days where the temperature never was warmer than 32F.

 Aaron Floden
 Knoxville, Tennessee