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Re: Rhodophiala rhodolirion
« Reply #30 on: January 10, 2009, 06:41:24 PM »
Quote from: Hans A. on January 10, 2009, 05:27:02 PM
Alberto, many thanks.

Tony, where did you take this picture? It looks a bit like Rhodophiala montana an andean species of Central Chile.



high in the Maule Valley south of Santiago so you are right with its distribution
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Re: Rhodophiala rhodolirion
« Reply #31 on: January 10, 2009, 07:22:00 PM »
Hi Diane:

             About 5 cm. in diameter on.

             The trick is repotting a lot deeper every year as soon as the seedling bulbs go dormant.


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Re: Rhodophiala rhodolirion
« Reply #32 on: January 10, 2009, 07:43:33 PM »
I'm getting a little confused folks. I have Rhodophiala andicola; R. elwesii; R. montana and R. splendens growing from seed sown last September. They were sown in my usual seed mix of JI seed compost with added sand and grit and they germinated outside and then I moved them into the greenhouse. Of the four pots andicola was the poorest germinator. Should I leave them in the greenhouse? I had intended to keep them in growth, and feed them fornightly with a dilute high potash feed, until they start to yellow-is this correct. I had also intended to keep them in the seed pots for a couple of years-is this correct?
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Re: Rhodophiala rhodolirion
« Reply #33 on: January 10, 2009, 08:55:38 PM »
Quote from: Ezeiza on January 10, 2009, 01:32:09 AM
As for serotina, if you mention the habitat data in the packet I can tell you about the habitat. It is a published species or John Watson would not use the name.

Hi Alberto,

It's FW11106 via JJA, collected between Ovalle & Huasco, Atacama, Chile III. 
Very arid & with a wide temperature variation I suppose.
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Re: Rhodophiala rhodolirion
« Reply #34 on: January 10, 2009, 09:55:27 PM »
Thanks Ashley:

                     Autumn, winter and spring grower, dry summer dormant. Soil extremely well drained, alkaline, full sun. Can be grown as a Cape bulb (frost free). You can mimic the thermal amplitude by giving afternoon shade. Coastal fogs keep them cooler at nights.

                    Soil temperatures over there have been know to reach an impossible 80 C.


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Re: Rhodophiala rhodolirion
« Reply #35 on: January 11, 2009, 02:20:55 PM »
Excellent, Alberto.  Thank you again for these insights.
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Re: Rhodophiala rhodolirion
« Reply #36 on: January 12, 2009, 08:59:17 AM »
Quote from: Tony Willis on January 10, 2009, 06:41:24 PM
Quote from: Hans A. on January 10, 2009, 05:27:02 PM
Alberto, many thanks.

Tony, where did you take this picture? It looks a bit like Rhodophiala montana an andean species of Central Chile.



high in the Maule Valley south of Santiago so you are right with its distribution

I took my picture just there last year in spring - it seems to to have a really small distribution and  is said to be endemic to this valley - hope the new road to Argentina will not have a to much influence on this species. :-\
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Re: Rhodophiala rhodolirion
« Reply #37 on: January 12, 2009, 02:21:10 PM »
Hans perhaps only to make it easier to get to see the flowers. The road was terrible in a tiny nissan micra type car.It was only when I got home I read the small print in the rental agreement that said I could not take it of tarmac roads.Ignorance was bliss!
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Re: Rhodophiala rhodolirion
« Reply #38 on: January 12, 2009, 04:46:26 PM »
Quote from: Tony Willis on January 12, 2009, 02:21:10 PM
The road was terrible in a tiny nissan micra type car.

Tony you have my full respect - do not know how you managed this tour with such a car!
We had big problems with our large and heavy off-road vehicle to cross a ford on the way back from the Laguna de Maule – because of melting snow an easy ford in the morning turned to dangerous fast-flowing stream in the evening!  It was my first submarine experience in such an altitude. ;)

In a lower altitude in the catchment area of the same river I found a population of red Rhodophiala two years ago  – a botanist confirmed its ID as R. splendens –  it was a still unknown population (for him) growing in humus rich soil.

« Last Edit: January 12, 2009, 05:05:51 PM by Hans A. »
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Re: Rhodophiala rhodolirion
« Reply #39 on: January 12, 2009, 05:10:09 PM »
Hans, it was a bit difficult but little cars float!

 I had tea with the policeman and his family at Laguna de Maule,his daughter practised her English on me. They were very proud of their countryside and I showed them my flower pictures on the digital camera.Clearly they were only used to fishermen going up there.

I only saw the two species of rhodophiala. I went up the Teno valley as well and the flowers there were wonderful.
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Re: Rhodophiala rhodolirion
« Reply #40 on: January 13, 2009, 05:20:43 PM »
Had no time for tea, we had to safe my wifes dog - mica thought the policemen horses were the best friends... ::) ;)
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Re: Rhodophiala rhodolirion
« Reply #41 on: September 20, 2009, 06:03:01 PM »
Today  in flower Rhodophiala bifida
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Re: Rhodophiala rhodolirion
« Reply #42 on: September 20, 2009, 07:25:41 PM »
I grow some Rodophiala species and today I got this flower, may be R. advena,or . bifida or R. pratensis, or something else !!
The flower is about 3 cm wide
very difficult to identiy as there is no real botanical key.
They are easy to grow in the greenhouse and free flowering.

« Last Edit: September 22, 2009, 06:55:08 PM by BULBISSIME »
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Re: Rhodophiala rhodolirion
« Reply #43 on: January 12, 2011, 03:39:35 AM »
There is a remarkable photo of this species on the UBC site today.

http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/potd/2011/01/rhodophiala_rhodolirion.php

johnw - +3c at 22:45, snow aplenty on the way.
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Re: Rhodophiala rhodolirion
« Reply #44 on: January 12, 2011, 06:05:32 AM »
Wow, what a colour form!!  :o
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