Podophyllum 2011

[ashley]

Your mairei are up here too Tony, in abundance

Beautiful delavayi forms; the progeny should be worth the wait.

[strever]

about 3 years ago i purchase P.mairei from Paul Christian rare plants
attached is an image of what they have grown to
i'm wondering if they really are mairei ?



Dick
No.Calif. amongst the Redwoods

[johnw]

about 3 years ago i purchase P.mairei from Paul Christian rare plants
attached is an image of what they have grown to
i'm wondering if they really are mairei ?


Dick
No.Calif. amongst the Redwoods

Dick - I'm afraid you have straight P. delavayi there.  

johnw

[johnw]

Lovely ones Tony. Do you think one can tell by the second year's first flush which delavayis are the keepers?   Have noticed a few that are very dark here.  With so many recipients of your seed you surely must be Johnny Mayappleseed!

johnw

[johnw]

I have been keeping quiet....

It's okay now Brian. With Maggi away we can all go hog wild on the Forum.

johnw

[Maggi Young]

I have been keeping quiet....

It's okay now Brian. With Maggi away we can all go hog wild on the Forum.

johnw

I heard that.......

[Maggi Young]

about 3 years ago i purchase P.mairei from Paul Christian rare plants
attached is an image of what they have grown to
i'm wondering if they really are mairei ?
http://www.strever.com/picts/002-mairei_1975.JPG
http://www.strever.com/picts/002-mairei_2009.JPG

Dick
No.Calif. amongst the Redwoods

Hello Dick, A warm welcome to you! What a shame about your plants received mis-named.
Happens  all too often, I'm afraid. One of the bugbears of us here on the Forum, as you will know!
I'm not seeing your pictures... not sure what has happened to them.  

[Diane Clement]

I'm not seeing your pictures... not sure what has happened to them.   

Pictures coming through here very clearly (twice in fact), both in the original post and in the quote by Johnw

[Maggi Young]

And with that, Diane, they appeared here too....
Must have been your 'fluence 

 I've taken the repeat from John's post. 

[Diane Clement]

And with that, Diane, they appeared here too....
Must have been your 'fluence    

just waved my magic wand    

I've taken the repeat from John's post.  

the picture hosting site embeds it when the code is posted

[Tony Willis]

Lovely ones Tony. Do you think one can tell by the second year's first flush which delavayis are the keepers?   Have noticed a few that are very dark here.  With so many recipients of your seed you surely must be Johnny Mayappleseed!

johnw

John

I was pleased to distribute them  particularly as the seed has such a short life and I had such a good crop. The berries are more attractive than the flowers being more visible and as they do not develop properly if not fertilised this means seed.

As to selecting the delavayii,there is no question of weeding them out,I am going to dot them about the border and keep them all!!

I did number the mother plants (three of them) and it is interesting that each plant has produced reasonably uniform coloured seedlings but each of the three is very different ranging from deeply coloured ones to almost green.The leaf shapes however are completely variable across them all but are still at an immature stage for another year or so. I hope that is understandable.

Another delavayi last year produced a white berry with only five seeds and these are  germinating and I  hope that this will be perpetuated.

[Tony Willis]

about 3 years ago i purchase P.mairei from Paul Christian rare plants
attached is an image of what they have grown to
i'm wondering if they really are mairei ?


Dick
No.Calif. amongst the Redwoods

Dick welcome ,yes they are delavayii.

what a place to live,we drove down your road in  May 2009 after visiting the Jedediah Smith Redwoods,small world ! They should grow well with you with all the rain you get.

[Hoy]

I get much rain too and Podophyllums should do well but slugs do better and consume Podophyllums faster than I can replace them
One of the few that has managed to survive is this Podophyllum aurantiocaule (pix from last spring) (Hope it is the right name!)

[Stephen Vella]

Very nice P aurantiocaule...Hoy!

[strever]

Tony
wish i had found this site back then
i could have shown you some local sites of interest with some interesting plants
you drove right by me  and yes they do well here

what a place to live,we drove down your road in  May 2009 after visiting the Jedediah Smith Redwoods,small world ! They should grow well with you with all the rain you get.