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Author Topic: Galanthus in the Southern Hemisphere July 2024  (Read 116 times)

fermi de Sousa

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Galanthus in the Southern Hemisphere July 2024
« on: July 21, 2024, 08:46:43 AM »
This winter has been a bit colder than usual but the snowdrops seem to have appreciated it.
Here are some of the Galanthus elwesii types in the garden with one single green blotch,
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Re: Galanthus in the Southern Hemisphere July 2024
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2024, 08:55:08 AM »
We have some Galanthus elwesii under deciduous trees where they have started to self-seed with some seedlings with single green blotches and some split in two,
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Re: Galanthus in the Southern Hemisphere July 2024
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2024, 08:58:27 AM »
This colony of Galanthus elwesii have both single and split green blotches.
It self seeded from higher up in the rock garden and survives in full sun without any overhead shade
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Re: Galanthus in the Southern Hemisphere July 2024
« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2024, 02:12:54 PM »
This is a different snowdrops with leaves wrapped around each other - is it Galanthus plicatus?
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Re: Galanthus in the Southern Hemisphere July 2024
« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2024, 09:34:13 PM »
Hi Fermi
Are the bleaves pleated?

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Re: Galanthus in the Southern Hemisphere July 2024
« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2024, 09:37:15 PM »
Not plicatus Fermi, which should have leaf-margins folded back (plicate).
This one looks like an elwesii to me.
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Re: Galanthus in the Southern Hemisphere July 2024
« Reply #6 on: Today at 01:19:11 AM »
Pleated: the leaf surface is folded longitudinally in pleats (plicate). Roughened ridges: the leaf surface is irregularly raised into roughened ridges. Grooved/furrowed/chanelled: the leaf surface has obvious grooves or channels, usually running longitudinally (sulcate).

 


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