Cyrtanthus 2022

[PaulFlowers]

Lucky enough to have two species of cyrtanthus flowering. C. Flavus (yellow) and the unspellable C. brachyscyphus (Orange).

[MarcR]

Hi Paul,

I was recently given 2 seedlings of Cyrtanthus montanus. The bulbs are about 1.5 inches thick through the widest point. Do you have any notion of how close that is to flowering size?

[PaulFlowers]

MarcR - they are fully mature! Should flower late summer

[partisangardener]

Beautiful your firework flowers.
I only have Cyrtanthus parviflorus which sends up nearly the whole year its firework rockets.
Seeds readily in all other pots if I want it and flowers under nearly all conditions.

[PaulFlowers]

Very nice!

Do you know if parviflora is the same as Cyrtanthus brachyscyphus?

Paul

[partisangardener]

This is a synonym of this species or vice versa.
I had the seeds from Botanical Garden Bayreuth.

[Karaba]

Seeds readily in all other pots if I want it and flowers under nearly all conditions.

Funny, mine flower also easily but don't make seeds even if I have three plants grown from seeds. I tried to crosspollinate but it gives nothing yet...

[partisangardener]

The same thing happened with me the first years.
Several times crosspollinating with the same flowers worked in the end sometimes. Maybe its the timing.
Since 2020 I just shake the flowering stems several times  and have always fruiting 10 to 30%.

I would send you seeds, but sending goods costs here 4.89 € Minimum rate only documents are less than half the price. These seeds are too delicate and fat to be send in a simple letter.
They make "Muesli" out of it, apart from being illegal.
Greetings from Germany

[PaulFlowers]

Cyrtanthus eucallus - the flower is a lovely orange colour. There should have been a few more

[partisangardener]

Just shaking the flowers from time to time produces seedstands with me.

[partisangardener]

The seeds cling some time to the opening pod. Here are 3 already gone.

[PaulFlowers]

Cyrtanthus cream - last flowered in February. The bulbs are small but the flowers massive

[PaulFlowers]

Cyrtanthus McKennii - fantastic scent and colour