Haemanthus 2011

[angie]

Jim what a show, you are so lucky. Like your labels with all the information.

Angie

[Brian Ellis]

What a wonderful colour on your cross Jim, well done, a most fitting name

[daveyp1970]

Jim can you pm your address please so i can send the Cyrtanthus elatus seed to you when its ready .

[jshields]

Haemanthus 'Burgundy' closer to full bloom.

Jim

[jshields]

The 'Burgundy' plants, being sterile, are still in bloom and rather fresh-looking.   

My seedlings of the purported cross Haemanthus [coccineus x crispus] have put up leaves.  They were planted in 2008, so this is their 4th set of leaves.  Until now, there was no visible difference between these "hybrids" and regular coccineus seedlings.  This year, the leaves are starting to show the undulate structure typical of the pollen parent, crispus.  Thus, I'm happy to confirm another Haemanthus hybrid.

The third successful hybrid I've made was [barkerae x coccineus] and the reciprocal.  These plants are fertile, and I'm working on the F2 generation of this pairing.

Jim

[Maggi Young]

I've just been enjoying your Nerine pix, Jim... and now I see your haemanthus babies are looking good.

The long- lasting flowers on your sterlile Burgundians are a bonus.

[angie]

Jim how long before you expect to see a flower.

Angie

[jshields]

I've never seen fruits of Haemanthus pubescens pubescens before, but I have two plants of this variety with berries now.  These berries are huge -- perhaps even larger than the berry of Haemanthus montanus: up to 1 inch/25 mm long.  Each of these berries contains a mere one to three seeds.  The smallish ellipsoidal seeds are approximately 9 mm long by 6 mm wide.

Unlike montanus, where there is only one seed per fruit and the fruit is very thin-skinned with the seeds completely filling the skin, the fruits of pubescens pubescens are mostly air inside.

Jim

[jshields]

Jim how long before you expect to see a flower.

Angie

Angie,

Haemanthus hybrids tend to be a little more vigorous than the species, at least in my greenhouse, so I expect to see a bloom in late summer 2013 with a bit of luck.  Both parents are bright red, so we'll have to see what the flowers may look like.

Jim

[angie]

Haemanthus hybrids tend to be a little more vigorous than the species, at least in my greenhouse, so I expect to see a bloom in late summer 2013 with a bit of luck.  Both parents are bright red, so we'll have to see what the flowers may look like.

Jim

Will be exciting times for you when they flower. Love those fruits on your Haemanthus pubescens.

Angie

[Hans J]

Today are flowering some late Haemanthus for me 

Here some pics :

Haemanthus albiflos "Dwarf" ( seedlings from from seeds ex Afr.Bulbs ) from a nice friend ....I find this plants not so small 

[Hans J]

Here are some pics from a strange plant:
I have received this plant from a gardening friend ( no bulb plant collector ) ...it has only one single leaf on the begin when I get it ...but my idea was it could be a Haemanthus and I was right .
Now this plant has recovered and make a lot of offsets and flowers regular ...I was always shure it is a H.albiflos or a form of H.albiflos ....
In this days start also with flowering my H.pauculifolius ...and I have now the idea that that this strange plant could also be H. pauculifoliuss or a intermediate between H. albiflos and H.pauculifolius ...
What are thinking other Haemanthus growers ?
Here are some pics :

Haemanthus spec.
Haemanthus spec. flower
Haemanthus comparison
Haemanthus pauculifolius

Thank you in advance for any comments
Hans

[PeterT]

I have a plant like this Hans, I bought it from Bob Brown as H paucifolius, It has longer stems than My clump of mature albiflos, flowers now when albiflos has finished, the leaves are longer and narrower. It is evergreen and is growing its new leaves now. Each leaf lasts up to 2 years so it normally has 4 leaves per bulb. The albifloss has six. I have several other forms of albifloss but they are not mature plants yet.

[jshields]

My guess is a hybrid between albiflos and pauculifolius because:

1) the umbel is narrower than most albiflos, like pauculifolius
2) the leaves show some hairiness, but both these species can show this
3) more leaves than normal for pauculifolius (normal is 1 to 2: one new and one old) while normal for albiflos is 2 to 4 leaves (2 new and 2 old)
4) the leaf color in the photos looks more like pauculifolius (light green) than albiflos leaf color (medium to dark green), at least to me

Lots of offsets is normal for both albiflos and pauculifolius.

The longer peduncles and leaves could be hybrid vigor, which I see in my barkerae x coccineus hybrids.  Someone should make the albiflos x pauculifolius cross in the greenhouse, to confirm this guess.

Jim

[Hans J]

Thank you Peter and Jim for your minds !

The problem is that I have no knowledge about the provenace of this plant ....
I got it in year 2004 from my friend ...and he got it several years before from a other contact - so I have no idea from where this plant come...
To your idea Jim about a hybrid ...maybe overlapp populations from albiflos with pauculifolius ?
I do not believe that anybody has produced hybrids in cultivation - also H.pauculifolius is not so long in cultivation ...( descripetet since 1993 )

I have also since several years a plant from Afr. Bulbs ( bought as small bulb ) - this clone is a bad grower - always more dead than live ...a strange thing

Hans