I too thouroughly enjoy all your work.Please,please keep up informing us of your progress.Really wonderful info and pictures. Thank you, M.W.Brown > Message du 28/12/07 17:31 > De : "Mary Sue Ittner" > A : pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > Copie à : > Objet : [pbs] Wiki additions -- Massonia, Haemanthus, Dietes, Chamaescilla > > Hi, > > I'm never sure if I should keep announcing wiki additions since I almost > never get any feedback to know if anyone does more than delete the post. So > perhaps people who care should write me privately and I could just have a > short list I could send an announcement to. I know some of the others who > add pictures have stopped telling people about their additions for the same > reason. > > I just added some more Massonia pictures to the wiki. I also looked up the > key in the Cape Encyclopedia and see that it is the stamens that are the > distinguishing factors in telling the species apart. Massonia depressa has > anthers that are more than 2mm. M. pygmaea besides being smaller has > filaments of two lengths. Massonia pustulata has filaments longer than 10 > mm (to 24mm.) and Massonia echinata 10 mm or less. So it looks like you > need to measure to be sure of what you have. I went out and looked at my M. > depressa and the anthers really are bigger. You can't see these subtle > differences in pictures. Photos added: Massonia depressa from Cameron > McMaster, Massonia echinata from Alan Horstmann (an unusual color) and > pustulate, Massonia jasminiflora from me and now blooming, Massonia > pustulata being pollinated (sorry these pictures aren't clearer, I had very > little time to get a tripod or even be sure of my settings, but was > fascinated watching the pollinator go from anther to anther), Massonia > pustulata from Cameron, and finally Massonia pygmaea from Alan. > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… > > I also added a few more Haemanthus pictures a couple of days ago. The first > is of a hybrid I believe. Doug Westfall sent me seed of H. albiflos and one > of the seedlings was distinctly different. > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… > And I added pictures of H. pauculifolius now blooming for awhile in my > greenhouse. I obtained this from Telos a number of years ago, but this is > the first time it has bloomed and I quite like it. > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… > > I also added a picture of an additional Dietes species that we saw in the > Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney. This species, Dietes robinsoniana, is > native to Cape Howe Island, an island off Australia. I added an additional > picture from Alan Horstmann of Dietes bicolor at the same time. > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… > > Finally about a week ago I added a wiki page for Chamaescilla > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… > This is an Australian genus with blue flowers. It's a charming little plant > we saw a number of times when we visited in September. It is not in the > Hyacinth family, but in the Anthericaceae family along with some other > Australian plants with the unusual root system that annually grows tuberous > roots from a cormlike stem. This family has been included in Agavaceae or > optionally Asparagaceae by APG II. Since Hyacinthaceae is also optionally > included in Asparagaceae that is one way genera with blue flowers that have > scilla in the name can be together. > > Mary Sue > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > >