Aspidistra

Peter Taggart petersirises@gmail.com
Sun, 26 Jun 2011 23:26:14 PDT
ThanksTony,
The gallery has allowed me to give two species names to cultivars and
tentatively to name A fungiliformis. for a plant Idid not have a name for.
I always understood Aspidistra to be lilliaceous with a creeping (?)rhizome.

peter

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Tony Avent <Tony@plantdelights.com> wrote:

> Peter:
>
> If anyone has an interest in aspidistra, you may find our aspidistra photo
> gallery of interest...currently with 118 photos of both the foliage and
> flowers.
> http://gallery.plantdelights.com/Aspidistra-Cast-I…
>
> Since it's hard for us to consider aspidistra as a bulb, tuber, or corm, we
> established an aspidistra chat group at
> http://tech.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspidistra/…
>
> Tony Avent
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org]
> On Behalf Of Peter Taggart
> Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 12:19 PM
> To: Pacific Bulb Society
> Subject: Re: [pbs] Rohdea and Aspidistra
>
> I have about a ten Aspidistra species. I may have had Milky Way" but I
> think
> that it is one I lost in the green house, last winter, which was
> exceptionally cold
> There are several groups within Aspidistra and several types of flower too.
> They have a distribution including Yunan, ?Burma, Korea, Japan and ?Korea
> I dont have any Rohdea but I did buy a couple of Peliosanthes this spring.
> I believe that some on this forum are particularly well informed on
> Aspidistra and I too would be glad to hear what they might have to say.
> Peter
>
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 4:42 PM, The Silent Seed <santoury@aol.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > I have no clue why, but from the time I joined, I've seen nothing
> mentioned
> > about these two wonderfully fantastic genera. Is there anybody else out
> > there who appreciates and / or collects these? What are your favorites
> and
> > why?
> > I will start: I have a modest collection of about a dozen types and am
> > always looking for more.
> > My favorite Aspidistra is the sp. lurida Ginga ("milky way" - who has the
> > REAL milky way anyway? Is there a hard and fast rule to differentiate
> them?)
> > - I just get lost in each leaf with its' starry patterns of yellow dots.
> > For a Rohdea, my favorite is the plain jane japonica. I love the
> simplicity
> > of it.
> > The first time I saw an Aspidistra flower, I was dumfouned! I knew they
> > were held low, but this one was actually buried, and only visible after I
> > pulled the plant up. It looks exactly like a paw paw tree flower.
> Amazing!
> > Do share!
> > Jude
> >
> >
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