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Need some help by the forum. Butterfingers! Some days ago a flower-box containing many of my spring flowering Pleiones fell down from the windowsill. Now it's all mixed up, the bulbs and the labels and I have to identify them by the flowers.The first one is a reddish one (first photo).In question: P. Caroli 'Cape Robin' and P. Kenya 'Bald Eagle' (2nd and 3rd photo from past years)My choice is P. Caroli. What do you think?
Pleione Caparo x Sifaka flowering for the first time.Lucy, 2 forms.Sifaka with spotting on the petals.Another Sifaka.
Quote from: Sempervivum on March 31, 2015, 08:48:13 PM Need some help by the forum. Butterfingers! Some days ago a flower-box containing many of my spring flowering Pleiones fell down from the windowsill. Now it's all mixed up, the bulbs and the labels and I have to identify them by the flowers. The first one is a reddish one (first photo). In question: P. Caroli 'Cape Robin' and P. Kenya 'Bald Eagle' (2nd and 3rd photo from past years) My choice is P. Caroli. What do you think?
Seems definitely 'Bald Eagle' to me, Ulrich !!
But 'Bald Eagle ' has a double keel , while 'Cape Robin' and Ulrich's red flower seem to have only a single keel?
Luc,the unknown pleione you (and I and probably many others) picked up from Jacques Amand comes indeed from Anthura. I contacted the hybridiser and he tells me that it is Pleione 'Glacier Peak', made with grandiflora and formosana 'alba'.I also bought 3 more 'bunches' of pleiones from him, which are now coming into flower. I identified the second one as P. Dr. Mo Weatherhead (grandiflora x humilis), the third one I'm not sure and the fourth is yet to open fully, but looks like P. x barbarae. I'll post some pictures tomorrow.