Epimedium - various threads gathered together here

[Olga Bondareva]

...the 'Baked Milk', I had never heard about that cultivar before.

It's of my selection. I found it 3 years ago at Black Sea coast. It grows very well and yesterday I found a small seedling near it. It's very interesting what it will be like...

[WimB]

...the 'Baked Milk', I had never heard about that cultivar before.

It's of my selection. I found it 3 years ago at Black Sea coast. It grows very well and yesterday I found a small seedling near it. It's very interesting what it will be like...

You made a very good selection, Olga. Lovely Plant!
When the seedling flowers, show us a picture...

[johnw]

Epimedium volunteer in a pot of E. acuminatum.

johnw

[arisaema]

Any suggestions on this species from Northern Vietnam? Stearn isn't much help, he doesn't list a single species from Vietnam, and the flower stalk is leafless.

[TheOnionMan]

Any suggestions on this species from Northern Vietnam? Stearn isn't much help, he doesn't list a single species from Vietnam, and the flower stalk is leafless.

@Arisaema:
Fascinating!  I'm not sure what species it is, although I have studied these photos against the probable yellow-flowered species that I know about; the flowers look somewhat E. membranaceum, bright yellow, very shallow cup, arched spreading spurs, and most importantly, white-pink-spotted or tinged outer sepals.  It has foliage that looks like membranaceum as well.  But it is a short spray; E. membranaceum has very long willowy stems with lots of flowers.  E. davidii and E. flavum have flowers with much longer "boxier" cups; franchetii flowers look similar but are most often a rather pale sulphur yellow; I don't think it is lishihchenii... maybe it is indeed a new undescribed species?

John: nice E. acuminatum volunteer!

Guff:  I'm afraid it is simply too hard to ID Epimediums from just a single flower close-up, even as good as those close-ups are, one also needs to see the foliage and plant habit.  Even so, it might be only possible to narrow down the the field to a "youngianum hybrid", or a "grandiflorum hybrid" at best.

[johnw]

First flowers on 'The Giant' x wushanense.

johnw

[fleurbleue]

Nice one John 

[TheOnionMan]

I agree, good one John... just how giant is your plant?  My plant of "the giant" did not bloom this year

[johnw]

I will try to take a better pic when the sun moves a bit.

Mark - The Giant is by no means giant yet, it hasn't been pampered and divisions are still in pots.

johnw

[arisaema]

@Arisaema:
Fascinating!  I'm not sure what species it is, although I have studied these photos against the probable yellow-flowered species that I know about; the flowers look somewhat E. membranaceum, bright yellow, very shallow cup, arched spreading spurs, and most importantly, white-pink-spotted or tinged outer sepals.  It has foliage that looks like membranaceum as well.  But it is a short spray; E. membranaceum has very long willowy stems with lots of flowers.  E. davidii and E. flavum have flowers with much longer "boxier" cups; franchetii flowers look similar but are most often a rather pale sulphur yellow; I don't think it is lishihchenii... maybe it is indeed a new undescribed species?

Sorry, only noticed your reply today. It might be E. membranaceum, the plants didn't flower this spring so I guess this may be a late and aberrant inflorescence? They have grown considerably so I'm hoping they'll all flower next spring. There's supposed to be a red-flowered species in addition to the yellow one, but they look almost identical in leaf...

[kiwi]

Not the best shot, but one of my favourites for the new growth let alone a stunning flower - E leptorrhizum.
China - Guizhou and Sichuan provinces.
Cheers,
Doug.

[Webster008]

First Epimediums starting to flower.

Epimedium Pink Constellation and Epimedium Fire Dragon

[Webster008]

Messed up the photos

Photo 1 and 4 E Fire Dragon
Photo 2 and 3 E Pink Constellation

[shelagh]

Nice photos Rick.  Epimediums are difficult to do justice to because the slightest breeze and they are away.  Hope there are lots more to come.

[Shadylanejewel]

First in my garden are:

Epimedium 'Purple Prince'
Epimedium brachyrrhizum
Epeimedium rubrum