More photos on the wiki

Lee Poulsen wpoulsen@pacbell.net
Fri, 19 Mar 2004 17:29:57 PST
I uploaded a few photos onto the wiki, and as usual have a question 
about two of them.

One is if someone could identify the unknown Moraea species. I love the 
flower and my label broke in half and all that is left is the word 
'Moraea'. It might be M. villosa.

The other is if I got the name (and spelling) of the Hippeastrum 
corriensis correct. I got it from a large Japanese bulb company 
(Komoriya), and was told it was Hippeastrum coliense. However, they 
actually identified it in their catalog as アマリリス コリエンセ [Don't know if 
that will come through; transliterated it is 'Amaririsu koriense'], and 
since they don't have 'L' in their language, they substitute it with an 
'R' and then have trouble knowing if the word they use originally used 
an 'L' or an 'R' when spelled in the Latin alphabet.
I can't find a picture of it on the web anywhere, and when it bloomed, 
at first I didn't think it looked like the picture in the catalog. But 
then I realized that the front-on view looked the same and I just 
didn't know it had such a long trumpet and that this is as wide as it 
opens.

Here are the photos I uploaded:
Tecophilaea cyanocrocus. They really are this intensely blue. It's a 
hue I've never seen in any other flower.
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

Moraea aristata
Moraea loubseri
Moraea villosa. This one almost looks like M. aristata, which when it 
first bloomed I thought it was.
Moraea unknown. Is this one also M. villosa? I love the appearance and 
color of this one. It looked different than all my other M. villosa.
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

Sprekelia formosissima. Photo of the cultivar known as 'Orient Red'. 
Much more robust grower and easier blooming than the common species. 
Some years there are 6 or 7 flushes of blooms starting as early as 
January and going on until the late Fall.
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

Hippeastrum corriensis. I got this from a large Japanese bulb company 
(Komoriya), and was told it was Hippeastrum coliense. However, they 
actually identified it in their catalog as ??????????? (Don't know if 
that will come through; transliterated, it is 'Amaririsu koriense'), 
and since they don't have 'L' in their language, they substitute it 
with an 'R' and then have trouble knowing if the word they use 
originally used an 'L' or an 'R' when spelled in the Latin alphabet. I 
can't find a picture of it on the web anywhere, and when it bloomed, at 
first I didn't think it looked like the picture in the catalog. But 
then I realized that the front-on view looked the same and I just 
didn't know it had such a long trumpet and that this is as wide as it 
opens. The scape is about 2/3 of a meter tall.
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Hippeastrum puniceum. This is from some bulbs I gathered down near sea 
level in Haleakala National Park on the island of Maui, Hawaii. I love 
this color and had never seen such a shade in a Hippeastrum before.
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http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

--Lee Poulsen
Pasadena area, California, USDA Zone 9-10


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