Cynthia, look at the photo I uploaded under the species name of H. puniceum. <http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…> I was told at some point in the past that H. equestre is just a synonym for H. puniceum. My photo didn't turn out that well, but your photo looks a lot like the flowers on my plants. It's the most orange-y Hipp. I've ever seen. I got my bulbs in Maui, Hawaii. --Lee Poulsen Pasadena area, California, USDA Zone 9-10 On Mar 28, 2004, at 6:11 PM, Cynthia Mueller wrote: > More on the "orange" Hippeastrum. Today I was looking at a very > similar > bloom on a Hipp. equestere from Monticello, grown by Dr. William C. > Welch, College Station, Tx. They are almost identical in size, color, > etc. but the anthers on the just-opened Monticello flowers are very > large and colored a dusty mauve. Are one or both of these equestere? > Do they have variants? Please help - Kevin or Alan - your thoughts? > > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/ > Hippeastrum_Orange_Mystery_cwm.jpg > > > Cynthia W. Mueller > > > >>>> c-mueller@tamu.edu 03/27/04 08:26PM >>> > My seed strain of "orange Hippeastrum" has begun to bloom. The parent > plant was found in the woods near Sealy (Central Texas), planted out > from a grandmother's garden. There are only two blooms per stalk, > leaves are small and rather low. This is the plant that has a > cream-colored "mask" at the throat. So far (several) seem true to > seed, > altho I do have other strains at work in the garden. More pics to > follow of them. > Who could tell me what this is? > http://ibiblio.pbs/pbswiki/files/… > > > > Cynthia W. Mueller > College Station, TX > Zone 8b-9 > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >
