Muscari--TOW

Harold Koopowitz hkoopowi@uci.edu
Tue, 13 May 2003 16:10:15 PDT
Does anyone have any pink or lilac forms of Muscari?
Harold
At 11:19 PM 5/13/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>Hello Jane,
>certainly there are many synonyms of Muscari armeniacum. I have several
>forms of M. armeniacum in my collection, collected (not by me ) in Turkey,
>Greece and other countries. They are all different. I don't always agree
>with the botanists that simply put many forms under one species name. Some
>of these forms are truly nice and interesting! Don't dislike your M. conicum
>because it is 'merely' a synonym, judge it on its beauty. If you have any
>seeds left over this year I would love to try it.
>
>
>Martin Philippo, Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands
>
>e-mail: martin philippo
>website:///muscaripages/
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org]On
>Behalf Of Jane McGary
>Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 9:43 PM
>To: Pacific Bulb Society
>Subject: Re: [pbs] Muscari--TOW
>
>Mary Sue asked,
>  >Just now blooming from Jane's surplus bulbs is Muscari pallens. It didn't
>even come up until April and I was sure it was >a goner. It is a sweet
>little thing. How long do I need to keep it growing and does it need summer
>water?
>
>I don't know whether it needs summer water, but it certainly tolerates it,
>because all of mine are in places where they get a small amount of
>irrigation in summer.
>
>By the way, a couple of years ago I got seed from the Scottish Rock Garden
>Club under the name Muscari conicum. I was quite pleased at how attractive
>it was in flower this year and looked it up. Oops...it's an invalid synonym
>of M. armeniacum. As they say, if dandelions were hard to grow, people
>would think they were gorgeous.
>
>Jane McGary
>Northwestern Oregon, USA
>
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Prof. Harold Koopowitz
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of California, Irvine, CA 92697


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