Pleione 2017

[karel_t]

Nice Tamarins John  .

Here are the few flowers from Czech.
K.

[Steve Garvie]

Very nice Karel!

[Steve Garvie]

I would be very grateful for help in naming the pleione pictured below.
I bought it a few years ago from a very reliable retailer as "Pleione hookeriana" which it plainly isn't. It is possible I have mis-labelled it though I don't think so. I only grow true species and primary (initially wild-derived) hybrids. I would not knowingly have bought a man-made hybrid (it's just the way I am!    ). Could this plant be Pl. bulbocodioides or is it a hybrid?
Many thanks.

[Bart]

Steve, immediate thought is volcanello, perhaps ,'honey buzzard'?

[Tim Harberd]

Hi Ashley,
   Thanks for the link to the magazine article.

Hi John,
   Thanks for your steady stream of photos…

Here are a few more from me:

P.Ueli Wackernagel ‘Regal’ The same pan I think.. now overcrowded!

P.Ueli Wackernagel  ‘169.1’ Sister seedling to Regal (which is 169.7) much easier to appreciate the flowers.

P.Vesuvius ‘Ember’

P.bulbocodioides 6X ‘M205.1’ from Cangshan, Yunnan. Sino/British expedition 1981. RGB Edinburgh ACC.NO: 812467

P. hybrid (P.Soufriere x P.Shepherd's Warning)  ‘Swan Song’

Tim DH

[Bart]

Tim, that bulbocodioides is stunning. As are all the others actually!

[john hodgson]

Hi Tim - thanks for the thanks!

I have not seen Vesuvius Ember before - so nice to see that - nor have I seen Swan Song (I have a few small bulbs I'm growing on, and I must say that your photo has me anticipating!)

For comparison with Ember here is my Vesuvius 'Phoenix' and 'Tawny Owl' (later note - when I took these photos, the colour balance was wrong - I realise now. Tawny Owl in particular is way too blue. See my later post for a much more accurate rendition.

[john hodgson]

Steve - I can see why Bart suggested Volcanello 'Honey Buzzard' - so here is mine... it is similar. But a key difference is the petal shape - mine are much less rounded than yours appear to be.

[john hodgson]

The photo I posted of Vesuvius Tawny Owl was an old one and I realised too blue. Here is a more recent one.

[john hodgson]

And here is one - new to me - a single pseudo bulb of Nyiarongo. Very beautiful large flowers I think.

[john hodgson]

Aurita

[john hodgson]

Now a strange one...

x barbarae.       For some reason, this year they are all sky gazers.  Odd.

[john hodgson]

Finally  Shantung Ridgeway

[vigor]

Hi Ashley,
   Thanks for the link to the magazine article.

Hi John,
   Thanks for your steady stream of photos…

Here are a few more from me:

P.Ueli Wackernagel ‘Regal’ The same pan I think.. now overcrowded!

P.Ueli Wackernagel  ‘169.1’ Sister seedling to Regal (which is 169.7) much easier to appreciate the flowers.

P.Vesuvius ‘Ember’

P.bulbocodioides 6X ‘M205.1’ from Cangshan, Yunnan. Sino/British expedition 1981. RGB Edinburgh ACC.NO: 812467

P. hybrid (P.Soufriere x P.Shepherd's Warning)  ‘Swan Song’

Tim DH

Tim, your P.bulbocodioides 6X ‘M205.1’ from Cangshan, Yunnan looks like P.× taliensis very much. The type of P.× taliensis also collected from Cangshan.
Anyway, amazing plants!

[Steve Garvie]

Pleione coronaria