Romulea

[Chris Johnson]

This is the first flowering from SRGC seeds, sown in 2014. Bought as Romulea zahnii 'Rosa'

[Chris Johnson]

Flowering at the same time is this 'rogue' found in a pot of narcissus seedlings. I have tentatively labelled it Romulea zahnii. It is a deeper colour than the 'Rosa' above.

[Rimmer de Vries]

Here is a fish box with about a dozen romulea seeds from both South African and mediterianum origin from last year's seed exchanges, stared in Feb 2016. Some leaves are over a foot long. These have been outside enjoying the temp fluctuations between 20F to 70F and seem not to mind the sub freezing temps. The soil is a frozen block in this photo.

Chris how tall are the leaves of your plants?

[Chris Johnson]

Chris how tall are the leaves of your plants?

Approximately 150mm, kept in the greenhouse out of the wind.

[ashley]

Very nice Chris.  It might be worth checking out R. linaresii, or maybe ramiflora, too.
Fantastic growth Rimmer.  They're obviously happy with you.

[Chris Johnson]

Thanks Ashley, I'll check those out tomorrow. I know where the 'rogue' came from so I will make enquiries in that direction too.

[Bart]

Flowering at the same time is this 'rogue' found in a pot of narcissus seedlings. I have tentatively labelled it Romulea zahnii. It is a deeper colour than the 'Rosa' above.

Chris, I had one flower on the same day in my pot from seedex 2014, labelled Romulea zahnii. Today, with wall to wall sunshine and warmth the pot looked like this:


Romulea zahnii

Since this one is new to me I tried to find out a bit more about it and according to the Pacific Bulb Society its name should be R. bulbocodium ssp.zahnii. But ofcourse that doesn't fit on a label!

[Chris Johnson]

That's a nice bold colour Bart, and very quick to flower.

I'm still waiting for a response on my 'rogue' plant.

[Bart]

That's a nice bold colour Bart, and very quick to flower

Whoops! Seeded 2014 that was, just like yours. Sorry! Just edited my post.

[ashley]

First romulea of the new season already

R. aff. bulbocodium var. leichtlinii   
Turkey, Hatay, Nur Dağları, Karlik mountain

I sent this to the seed exchange as aff. bulbocodium.

[Chris Johnson]

Gosh, that is early, and very nice.

[Karaba]

Romulea requienii from Corsica

[ielaba2011]

Romulea bulbocodium found in the wild. I think they are now coming to an end in this country, very last flowers..

[fermi de Sousa]

I originally got this as Romulea hartungii but I gather it is now considered to be Romulea grandiscapa.
It nearly got weeded out as it has come up in someone else's pot!
cheers
fermi

[fermi de Sousa]

Another volunteer Romulea has appeared and I presumed that it was another Romulea grandiscapa.
However it has  a very different form - possibly because it was more shaded.
Here's a comparison of the two types of flower
cheers
fermi