I seem to be doing it right now, fingers crossed . Must have had a senior ½ hour. Trichopetalum plumosum has been uploaded to the wiki http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/… I like this for it's curiosity value and because they are not available in every supermarket. From South America. "It's related to Thysanotus and Arthropodium and grows in much the same way, flowering the in the second year. The roots are finely tuberous, hence the lack of a bulb. The flowers are very odd, with the outer tepals small and the inner tepals looking like they are mostly hairs." (John Conran) ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________ From Alberto Castillo Trichopetalum plumosum is the only species of the genus in South America and it resembles Thysanoti a lot, pointing to the remote times when Australasia and South America were part of the same region. It is a little plant some 20 cm tall or shorter when in bloom. Flowers are a white, sometimes a dirty white and produced in Spring. In its native ladn of Chile it grows in full sun in grassy slopes of hills in well drained soils. It is not the easiest of plants to grow though. Rootstock is a cluster of short sausages like in Thysanoti. In the wild it receives rains from April to November and not a single drop during summer. Therefore an autumn-winter-spring grower/summer dormant plant. Foliage is basal, grass like. Soils in the wild are neutral to slightly alkaline and frosts are slight and of no consequence. Regards Alberto Regards Sheila Perth Western Australia _______________________________________________
