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Anthony Darby

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Re: Biarum
« Reply #45 on: October 08, 2009, 11:09:45 PM »
Here's my Biarum marmariensis, which, this time last year, was a single non-flowering tuber.
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Re: Biarum
« Reply #46 on: October 08, 2009, 11:25:39 PM »
Good increase, Anthony... sweet little thing, isn't it?
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Re: Biarum
« Reply #47 on: October 09, 2009, 12:56:02 AM »
Cute, isn't it. 8)
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Re: Biarum
« Reply #48 on: October 09, 2009, 07:25:59 PM »
If only Arum pictum would flower as well! ::)
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Re: Biarum
« Reply #49 on: October 09, 2009, 09:37:11 PM »
Hi Massonia,

Very funny you say that - the replacement plant I was sent by PC when I complained that the first one was B. tenuifolium has behaved the exact same way over 2 years now - arrived as a small tuber and is now about 7 small tubers. I normally do quite well with this sp., so i was wondering what was up - dodgy clone possibly?

The plant I showed was from the now no longer extant Monocot nurseries, a much more reliable outfit when it was trading.

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Re: Biarum
« Reply #50 on: October 09, 2009, 10:57:04 PM »
Anthony

very nice. I have been unable to flower it here and just like Alex I find mine divides freely so I have numbers of offsets. I am going to put it in a very hot spot next summer and sss if this has any effect.
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Re: Biarum
« Reply #51 on: October 09, 2009, 11:24:17 PM »
Anthony,

The Arum pictum flowers easily here for me, yet the davisii (and ssp marmariensis) are almost impossible for me to flower it seems. :-\ Interesting you have the reverse (and maybe a clue as to why)
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Re: Biarum
« Reply #52 on: October 10, 2009, 05:48:03 PM »
Hi Alex,
thank you very much for your comment, although it sound not very encouraging! ;) But I am also asking myself if it is really ditschianum! Unfortunately this would not be the first time that the mentioned nursery mixed up something in my order! I made this experience several times! Unfortunately I always got common species, instead of the rare ones!  :(
Does anybody now a source for a real ditschianum?
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Re: Biarum
« Reply #53 on: October 10, 2009, 09:35:16 PM »
Count yourself lucky - most of the plants I have had as Biarum davisii have turned out to be Biarums of the 'tenuifolium' ilk come flowering time!
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Re: Biarum
« Reply #54 on: October 12, 2009, 08:17:58 PM »
I've never yet had a flower on any of them. Probably not hot enough here in the south of the country and failing a small glass house....... ???
Lesley Cox - near Dunedin, lower east coast, South Island of New Zealand - Zone 9

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Re: Biarum
« Reply #55 on: October 12, 2009, 11:49:51 PM »
Lesley,

I have friends who grow and flower Biarum far better than me down near Hobart in Tas,  If you're going to put up a glasshouse for them, why think a "small" glasshouse...... go for a large one and then you can really go crazy.  ;D ;D
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Re: Biarum
« Reply #56 on: July 05, 2010, 10:49:51 AM »
I know this thread is old but i had (prematurely) replied to Alex that my B. ditschianum from PC were true to name. One of them has just flowered as a B tenuifolium form so it seems I have rogues too! 
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Re: Biarum
« Reply #57 on: August 23, 2010, 03:29:06 PM »
a couple of biarum sp in flower.

Biarum sp from Greece,Mt Parnassus

Biarum sp from Spain,El Torqual
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Re: Biarum
« Reply #58 on: September 05, 2010, 11:08:05 AM »
a couple of pictures of Biarum ohridense
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Re: Biarum
« Reply #59 on: September 05, 2010, 02:15:48 PM »
Tony what a thing Biarum ohridense is :o :o
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