August 2011 in the Northern Hemisphere

[manicbotanic]

the foliage on that beesia looks different to mine.when i met dan hinckley at crug he said there beesia isnt calthifolia  but another species!!!!cant remember what though..great plant anyhow.

[angie]

Another plant today that caught my eye in the garden was Beesia calthifolia I bought it this year at the conference. I purchased it for its beautiful foliage but I thought the flower and the seed pods looked very attractive.

Could you post a picture of the foliage? I've never seen the true B. calthifolia in cultivation, they've always been misidentified B. deltophylla.

ETA: Added a picture of the real B. calthifolia, from Zhongdian, 4000m. The leaves are around the same size as Asarum caudatum.

Here is a picture of my leaves of B. calthifolia, mine look as if they have a more leathery look. Never seen this plant before so nothing to compare with.   The foliage is lovely when new.
Hope the picture is good enough.

Angie

[arisaema]

Here is a picture of my leaves of B. calthifolia, mine look as if they have a more leathery look. Never seen this plant before so nothing to compare with.   The foliage is lovely when new.
Hope the picture is good enough.

Thank you for the pictures, it's the same plant that I grow. It looks (and behaves) quite different from those B. calthifolia I've seen in Sichuan and Yunnan, although to be honest I'm not at all sure what it is... Googling Beesia deltophylla brings up a lot of pictures identical to your plant, but that species is only found in a very remote area of S Tibet, and the herbarium sheets (2) are clearly different. Maybe its true identity is found among some of the synonyms listed in the FoC; B. cordata or B. elongata?