Fine Foliage... curly or spiralled leaves

[Paul T]

Fred and Yuri,

I'd be pleased to be growing any of those you photographed.  The leaves are just so wonderful.

Thanks for the pics.

[Rogan]

Not exactly curled or spiralled, but with perfect symmetry: Drosera aliciae flourishing in a bog in the southern Cape.

[Paul T]

Lovely, Rogan.  I want to get back into carnivorous plants.  I used to have a few a while back, but want to get a collection together again one of these days (hopefully not too distant).  Thanks for the perfect picture! 

[Ragged Robin]

An eye-opening      , mind-boggling  thread - what amazing foliage on all the plants posted - is this where the idea for curly decoration on presents came from    Nature really is the great inventor of ideas 

[Ezeiza]

I keyed to Ornithogalum atticum. What does the Russian text says?

[Lesley Cox]

 I want to get back into carnivorous plants.  

I'll bet the carnivorous plants are already licking their lips in anticipation. In order not to damage them, remember to take off your glasses first.

[Yuri Pirogov]

I keyed to Ornithogalum atticum. What does the Russian text says?

It is the site where the plant was photographed.

[fermi de Sousa]

Geissorhiza corrugata foliage is rather curly.
cheers
fermi

[Paul T]

How cute are they, Fermi!!  Adorable.  Not one I have seen before.  Thanks. 

[Brian Ellis]

What fun!  Presumably they spring back if accidentally trodden on

[Ragged Robin]

Do you play a flute to get them to dance like that Fermi? 

...  ;)a really fun plant

[Lesley Cox]

A delightful species Fermi. Who needs flowers? but, in case you do, have you seen it flower. What colour, size?

[Susan Band]

I got some seed from silverhill this spring, I must go and check if it has germinated yet. It would be great to see in real life. I presume Feri it likes dry Australian conditions not really Scottish ones  never mind worth a try. In the silverhills catalogue it has yellow flowers. Do you grow any of the other geissorhiza Fermi ? In a mad optimistic moment I ordered a lot of them.
Susan

[fermi de Sousa]

A delightful species Fermi. Who needs flowers? but, in case you do, have you seen it flower. What colour, size?

Lesley,
I'd never really noticed how curly the foliage is. The flower is a lovely butter yellow ( I posted pics last spring)

I got some seed from silverhill this spring, I must go and check if it has germinated yet. It would be great to see in real life. I presume Fermi it likes dry Australian conditions not really Scottish ones  never mind worth a try. In the silverhills catalogue it has yellow flowers. Do you grow any of the other geissorhiza Fermi ? In a mad optimistic moment I ordered a lot of them.
Susan

Hi Susan,
I also got mine as seed from SilverHills - many years ago; the corms stay fairly small and can easily be kept in a pot to keep them dry over summer. The pic is of some I decided to try out in a raised bed but I won't be watering it over the summer.
I only have a couple of other species of Geissorhiza, one that is supposedly G. splendidissima and another which is most likely G. aspera.
I like most of the spring flowering South African "bulbs"!
cheers
fermi

[Anthony Darby]

Must check this out, as anything that can be grown in the greenhouse in a pot and kept dry over the summer would be ideally suited to my regime.