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Re: May 2010 in the Southern Hemisphere.
« Reply #30 on: May 17, 2010, 12:30:24 AM »
Just a few more of the winter flowering Oxalis species flowering at the moment, this time the delightful Oxalis versicolor and Oxalis meisneri.
Bill Dijk in Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
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Re: May 2010 in the Southern Hemisphere.
« Reply #31 on: May 17, 2010, 05:49:50 AM »
Just a few more of the winter flowering Oxalis species flowering at the moment, this time the delightful Oxalis versicolor and Oxalis meisneri.
Hi Bill,
your O. meisneri looks like what I have as O. kaajvoegensis, but my source for it died a few years ago so I have no other info on it (google only links back to my entries on this Forum!) - what can you tell us about yours?
I've posted pics of other oxalis on the "South African Bulbs" Thread.
We have a flower out on Iris reichenbachii - a bit out of season!
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And after saying elsewhere that G. peshmenii is the only autumn snowdrop we get to flower, up came a bloom on Galanthus reginae-olgae!
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Nearby more dianthus seedlings continue to bloom; this one has an amazing array of spots and looking at it on the screen I get the disconcerting sense of looking at a "Magic Eye" picture!
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Crocus pulchellus "Albus" is starting to flower - this was split up in the summer so isn't as prolific as it was last year.
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A few more blooms on Crocus cancellatus ssp mazzariacus,
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This crocus is in the garden of our friend Cathy Newing in Macedon; she got it as Crocus ochroleucus, planted about 20 and gets a varied number of different sized blooms over a number of weeks,
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She also has a great bulb scree where Oxalis perdicaria/lobata and Oxalis purpurea are making a great display,
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A native small tree she grows looks like some sort of pinus
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till it flowers and it's obviously a Geebung, Persoonia pinifolia,
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cheers
fermi
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Victoria, Australia

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Re: May 2010 in the Southern Hemisphere.
« Reply #32 on: May 17, 2010, 11:30:14 AM »
your O. meisneri looks like what I have as O. kaajvoegensis, but my source for it died a few years ago so I have no other info on it (google only links back to my entries on this Forum!) - what can you tell us about yours?
I've posted pics of other oxalis on the "South African Bulbs" Thread.

Yes the Oxalis genus is very large, (with over 800 species) and information often scarse and very confusing.
Our Oxalis meisneri originally came from Terry Hatch in Auckland, a well known authority, plantsman and collector of SA bulbs including Oxalis species.
There is an correct and true illustration and description of this species in "Bulbous Plants of South Africa" by Niel Du Plessis and Graham Duncan.
Hope this has been helpfull Fermi.
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Re: May 2010 in the Southern Hemisphere.
« Reply #33 on: May 17, 2010, 11:52:24 AM »
Gladiolus dalenii (syn.G.natalensis) is one of the most variable of all species and has many synonyms.
This vigorous form with orange and yellow flowers in autumn and early winter is widely grown.
« Last Edit: May 17, 2010, 11:55:59 AM by Tecophilaea King »
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Re: May 2010 in the Southern Hemisphere.
« Reply #34 on: May 18, 2010, 12:33:07 AM »
Thanks for your help, Bill.
I'll have to look for that reference/text!
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Re: May 2010 in the Southern Hemisphere.
« Reply #35 on: May 24, 2010, 09:01:19 AM »

Crocus pulchellus "Albus" is starting to flower - this was split up in the summer so isn't as prolific as it was last year.

Wrong again! It looked pretty good on the weekend - except where something has taken a bite out of them!
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Re: May 2010 in the Southern Hemisphere.
« Reply #36 on: May 25, 2010, 11:18:08 AM »
So good when they clump up like your picture shows Fermi
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Keyneton,
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