Sun break photos

Jim McKenney jimmckenney@starpower.net
Mon, 01 Mar 2004 13:16:16 PST
Jane McGary wrote:

>The story of it is on the Photographs and Information page for Sternbergia. 
>In short, it has yellow flowers in fall and utterly S. candida-like foliage 
>in spring, and it was part of a batch of bulbs bought by Panayoti Kelaidis 
>in the early 1990s, which apparently had been wild-dug because there were 
>S. candida bulbs among them. Any ideas?

I'm chiming in for Sternbergia fischeriana, too. For me, this was a late
winter bloomer, not a fall bloomer. The foliage on the plant I had years
ago was the same color and even more upright and slightly twisted. 

Jim McKenney
jimmckenney@starpower.net
Montgomery County, Maryland, zone 7, where the temperature has reached 70
degrees F and all the coldframes are propped open. 







At 01:51 PM 2/29/2004 -0800, you wrote:
>Today I hurried out during a sun break (a weather term that seems to be 
>indigenous to the Pacific Northwest) and photographed a whole lot of bulbs, 
>then posted them on the wiki. I have some questions about two of them.
>
>First, here is another mystery Narcissus:
>http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/…
>
>There is a subsp. albidus of N. romieuxii, but I don't find occidentalis 
>among the epithets of any member of the Bulbocodium section in the 
>literature I have. Any ideas, Harold and Kathy?
>
>Second, here is a really serious mystery Sternbergia:
>http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/…
>
>The story of it is on the Photographs and Information page for Sternbergia. 
>In short, it has yellow flowers in fall and utterly S. candida-like foliage 
>in spring, and it was part of a batch of bulbs bought by Panayoti Kelaidis 
>in the early 1990s, which apparently had been wild-dug because there were 
>S. candida bulbs among them. Any ideas?
>
>The other items include:
>http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/…
>http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/…
>http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/…
>http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/…
>http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/…
>http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/…
>http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/…
>http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/…
>http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/…
>
>I've requested a page be set up for Corydalis, which I'm sure many of us 
>will be photographing in the coming weeks.
>
>Jane McGary
>Northwestern Oregon, USA
>
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