South African Bulbs 2013

[angie]

here is flowering very nice my Stumaria salteri

Hans

Hans thats really pretty, I see how you are pleased 

Angie 

[Hans J]

Thank you Angie and Fermi 

Hans

[Mark Griffiths]

seemed to have missed these, lovely plants all!

[YT]

A pot of Polyxena ensifolia (Lachenalia ensifolia) starts to flower here

[fermi de Sousa]

Excellent photo,Tatsuo-San!
And a well grown plant
cheers
fermi

[ArnoldT]

Here's Lachenalia pauciflora paucifolia .

 Lachenalia paucifolia (W.F.Barker) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt  from 2004
 with an earliest ref. to Hyacinthus paucifolius W.F.Barker as a synonym of Lachenalia paucifolia (W.F.Barker) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt

The record derives from WCSP which reports it as a synonym (record 278671) with original publication details: J. S. African Bot. 7: 198 1941.

Plant list also has on http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-292132   this:
Polyxena paucifolia (W.F.Barker) A.M.van der Merwe & J.C.Manning    Synonym
Polyxena calcicola U.Müll.-Doblies & D.Müll.-Doblies    Synonym
Periboea paucifolia (W.F.Barker) U.Müll.-Doblies & D.Müll.-Doblies    Synonym
Periboea oliveri U.Müll.-Doblies & D.Müll.-Doblies    Synonym

[ArnoldT]

Two more   South Africans.

Crossyne flava with long white or straw colored bristly fringe (love that description)
Lachenalia punctata

[pehe]

A pot of Polyxena ensifolia (Lachenalia ensifolia) starts to flower here

That's a nice one!

Massonia pustulata has opened a little

Poul

[johnw]

I sowed 3 pots of Massonia seed back in September.  The pustulalatas are fine but of the other two pot the 3 seedlings in one pot died off and nothing came of the other.  Should I toss those two pots or water ocassionally and keep very cool or dry off and keep them cool?

johnw - bitter  - here, -5c last night and mercury stuck there, +15c on Wednesday and 50mm.

[fermi de Sousa]

I've been digging up some seedling Babiana corms from the rock garden - at the rate these are descending in another year they'd have been more than a trowel's length down! The remains of the contractile root is still evident,
New version of pic uploaded - it should expand when clicked!
cheers
fermi

[Maggi Young]

-.....and they're already "down under" from my point of view and still they're trying to get deeper!

fermi  - your recent photos are tiny - only 112 x112 pixels - no enlargement on click.... or 229 x 229- only slight enlargement.... is this deliberate? 

[fermi de Sousa]

fermi  - your recent photos are tiny - only 112 x112 pixels - no enlargement on click.... or 229 x 229- only slight enlargement.... is this deliberate? 

Sorry, Maggi,
I'm trying to use the home computer to do the re-sizing and it's not as easy as the system at work (which is off-line due to re-locating our office last week);
I'll need to download a resizing thingummy I think!
cheers
fermi

[Ezeiza]

Babianas, Androcymbium, Cyanella, Lapeirousia, must all be planted deep. Otherwise the plants will struggle during several years to reach the required depth. About babianas, there should not be a "stem"visible below the first pair of leaves (from the corm up, that is). In all the many species I have seen, grown or seen from the wild, the first pair of leaves  bases are slightly inside the ground. That a "stem is visible below these leaves indicate the corm must be planted deeper. Of course, in pot cultivation this is a problem. With the largest species like dregei, ringens, etc. that have big, big corms, that depth is considerable.

[Pete Clarke]

Back in 2010 I crossed Massonia jasminiflora with pustulata, hoping to get the pustulata leaf with the jasminiflora flower. The cross seems to have achieved this aim, with the first bulbs flowering now. The 2nd plant has tan coloured pollen though.

[Yann]

Nice job