Flowers and foliage- Now- November 2007

[Gerdk]

Gerd, the Narcisus I've seen here are the N. Papyraceus. It was last year and I don't remember if it was in this date ou later. We have also the little N.Bulbocodium, I like it very much.

Kindly
Cris

Thank you Cris. Please make some pictures when you see these daffodils again.
N. papyraceus will flower soon, the bulbocodiums in spring.

Gerd

[Gerdk]

That Mandragon is something rather special.
I suppose that the problem with trying to cultivate it is that you might die every time you re-potted it?

David,
There is no need to re-pot, you can grow this species outside. Dieter Zschummel told me the plant is hardy.
If you intend to transplant the species, no problem let a dog pull it out of the earth
(or --- ask your mother in law to do the job). 

Gerd

[Lesley Cox]

That Mandragora is a real stunner. But you're a bit tough on mothers-in-law Gerd. I got on very well with mine, better than with my husband, in the finish.

[Maggi Young]

Ian has accused me of pulling up a mandrake plant in our garden.... I deny this absolutely.... and it seems, since I am still alive and neither dead nor deafened, I must be telling the truth.... anyway, why would I want to pull it up, I like the plant and I would LOVE to have Mandragora caulescens... it is wonderful... who could resist those mysterious black flowers?

[Paul T]

Mandragora with black flowers...... even better.  Now I want one!!    Still quite like that blue one too of course!! 

[Gerdk]

Lesley,
You are right, there are beautiful mother-in-laws, I did love my own one also. But - from a male point of view - daughters are superior.

There is so much written about Mandragora. When I googled for a source for the Chinese plant I found this:

In Kairo (Egypt) mandragora is recommended as an aphrodisac for just-married couples which want to have a lot of sons

Angelika Prentner (2005)   Bewusstseinverändernde Pflanzen von A - Z
( plants which change your mind)

What a chance for some of us! Not for me, I already have 3 sons.

Gerd

[Cris]

Gerd, now is the time of blooming?
I must go search them. they have a perfum..uhhhmmm

[henkw]

Hallo everybody,

Here some Oxalis that are flowering now!

The last yellow oxalis I do not know how it is called, his leaves are a bit waxy and succelent like.

Perhaps someone knows the name for me.

Henk Westerhof

[mark smyth]

O. pentaphylla and the last one are lovely

[Rafa]

Very beautiful Oxalis plants, and very special Mandragora Gerd, very differnet from iberic one.

[Rafa]

Hola Cristina, mucho gusto en saludarte por aqui, por fín te has animado!!

I did't know Narcissus papyraceus was so common in Portugal, I just know 2  locations.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Henk,
I think your yellow Oxalis could be O. chrysantha

[Cris]

Rafa, es verdad, por fin me he animado a entrar. Y me está gustando mucho.
I don't know if they're wild or escaped from gardens, but they're far from houses.
Near them I've also seen Asphodellus and a kind of Scilla, with a large leave and inside the little blue flowers. And also som Romuleas, lilac color.


Gerd, I post two pics os this Narcisus, they're took last year by february.

I must go there sooner to take some pics of the place, then I'll show it.

[Gerdk]

Gerd, I post two pics os this Narcisus, they're took last year by february.
I must go there sooner to take some pics of the place, then I'll show it.

Estupendo! Muchas gracias.

Gerd

[Paul T]

Henk,

In under all those leaves on your yellow Oxalis, is there a thickened stem?  It looks identical to a small plant of Oxalis carnosa, before it develops the caudiciforme "trunk".  I don't know O. chrysantha so can't comment on differences between these two species.