Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh - alpine house and news

[ian mcdonald]

We are not getting any younger Maggi and I for one would like to try some of the "specialist" alpines before it is too late.

[Mark Griffiths]

Ian, I had Jankea many years ago from a commercial source and they were from a collection - but we are talking in the 70s. It just dwindled to nothing.

My take is it is better to try from seed and get a batch - have you tried Ramonda serbica? You can get seed of that and it might be worth seeing if that survives in your tufa wall. or the bigeneric hybrid.

[ian mcdonald]

Thanks Mark.

[Great Moravian]

Alan,
I would greatly appreciate if you would photograph and provide to us
the image of the true Rosularia muratdaghensis.
The RBG data are as follows.
RBGE Accession number: 19622740
Rosularia muratdaghensis Kit Tan
Living plants of this accession
19622740A       Q27 General Plant Collection
Collected in Turkey : Kätahya
Collected by Davis, Peter Hadland
Thank you.

[alanelliott]

Sure.

I'll have a look tomorrow when I get a chance between Lab work. If you send me a private message with your email adress I'll forward them on.

Al

Alan,
I would greatly appreciate if you would photograph and provide to us
the image of the true Rosularia muratdaghensis.
The RBG data are as follows.
RBGE Accession number: 19622740
Rosularia muratdaghensis Kit Tan
Living plants of this accession
19622740A       Q27 General Plant Collection
Collected in Turkey : Kätahya
Collected by Davis, Peter Hadland
Thank you.

[Maggi Young]

Pix from the RBGE alpine dept. ......


Fritillaria aurea


Fritillaria crassifolia


Fritillaria imperialis - red form

[Maggi Young]

Some more from the RBGE


Leontice leontopetalum a tuberous herbaceous relative of Berberis


Dionysia  curviflora  x tapetodes


Saxifraga dinnikii  alba flowering in the new alpine house

[alanelliott]

Here is Rosularia muratdaghensis. I did a botanics story post about them http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/14521

Rosularia muratdaghensis collected in 1962 in Turkey by Peter Davis. As far as I can tell it has never flowered in Edinburgh.

[mark smyth]

Great "tweet" from Al Elliot - " Just released from @TheBotanics quarantine after being collected in Tajikistan on the FEKET expedition. #Straightface  " 

At Rosemoor with Jo in Feb we saw a pot of Cyclamen with three different ones in it!

[Maggi Young]

Alan,
I would greatly appreciate if you would photograph and provide to us
the image of the true Rosularia muratdaghensis.
The RBG data are as follows.
RBGE Accession number: 19622740
Rosularia muratdaghensis Kit Tan
Living plants of this accession
19622740A       Q27 General Plant Collection
Collected in Turkey : Kätahya
Collected by Davis, Peter Hadland
Thank you.

   A speedy  response for you, Josef!

[Great Moravian]

Thank you, Alan. The resolution in  http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/14521 after clicking on the images
is sufficient. In fact, it is possible to post larger images with clickable thumbnails in this forum too.
Not too large, of course.
The plant seems to be really glabrous on both surfaces of leaves.
A considerably similar plant accompanied with the binomial Rosularia muratdaghensis
is in cultivation having the surfaces of leaves finely glandular-pubescent. The pubescence
is observable solely in side view, the leaves are flat above and narrowed to the base.
Here is a photograph by Marek Chaloupka of a very young compact-grown plant.
http://zahradnictvichaloupka.webnode.cz/products/novinka-2014-prometheum-muratdaghense/
A flowering plant photographed by Mojmír Martan is presented here.
http://www.skalnicky-brno.cz/doc/Zpravodaj64.pdf#page=10

[alanelliott]

Here is a leaf detail - didnt post it because its a bit crap.

I'll go back and hack up another rosette when Elspeth isnt looking. Sshh

[Great Moravian]

Here is a leaf detail - didnt post it because its a bit crap.

I'll go back and hack up another rosette when Elspeth isnt looking. Sshh

You are great.

[alanelliott]

Sorry for the delay things work getting away from me.

Additional leaf details of Rosularia muratdaghensis.


Upper surface


Lower surface - bit of stubble towards the tip.

Dont know if this helps any.

[Great Moravian]

Thank you. It is perfect. The surfaces are minutely and sparsely
glandular pubescent as in the plants in common cultivation
and not glabrous as claimed in the literature.