Unfortunately I can't attach a photo. My bulbs here went dormant and lost their leaves almost two months ago, in contrast to other B. disticha which are in a similar state to yours. I find it surprising to read it was found in southern South Africa ... northern South Africa I could believe. In the south, it is regular B. disticha, B. sp. southern South Africa, not sp. Aus. T > From: kimcmich@hotmail.com > To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 17:39:36 -0700 > Subject: Re: [pbs] Boophone excitement! > > > Greetings, > These three are grown outside and experience full sun all day and frequent frosty nights during their growing season. The leaves are not particularly broad (not compared to B. haemanthoides anyway) but I would be skeptical of using leaf-tip shape as diagnostic. The foliage is glaucous. > All that said, Paul Christian's website, while identifying this as sp. Aus, also noted the species has also been discovered at a second locale in South Africa (from which these bulbs came). > Can you post images of your sp Aus's foliage? > -|<ipp > > > From: zigur@hotmail.com > > To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > > Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 17:25:11 -0700 > > Subject: Re: [pbs] Boophone excitement! > > > > > > Boophone sp. Aus has particularly glaucous foliage with broad leaves and rounded tips - quite close to haemanthoides/ernesti-ruschii. Of course it may be due to cultivation, but plants I grow here retain those characteristics under my conditions. > > > > T > > > > > > > From: kimcmich@hotmail.com > > > To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > > > Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 16:55:26 -0700 > > > Subject: Re: [pbs] Boophone excitement! > > > > > > > > > Tim, > > > > > > The 2 foliated Boophone in the image are also sp. Aus. These were gotten from Paul Christian (rareplants.co.uk). I agree these look similar to Pt. Elizabeth - as well as looking like another Boophone I have, "eastern Cape evergreen form", I got via Simply Indigenous. Is there something in particular which makes you think this isn't sp. Aus? > > > > > > -|<ipp > > > > > > > From: zigur@hotmail.com > > > > To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > > > > Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 15:06:50 -0700 > > > > Subject: Re: [pbs] Boophone excitement! > > > > > > > > > > > > Do you have any pictures of your Boophone sp. Aus plant in full leaf? What you show here looks more like my B. sp. (disticha) Port Elizabeth. Mine are also flowering now. > > > > > > > > T > > > > > > > > > If the Boophone disticha harvest were not enough, as I was cleaning some dead weeds from the raised bed in my backyard, I was delighted to see this coming from one of my (until now) juvenile Boophone sp. Aus: > > > > > > > > > > http://www.anexaminedlife.net/bulbs/boo_aus.jpg > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > pbs mailing list > > > > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > > > > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > > > > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > pbs mailing list > > > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > > > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > > > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > pbs mailing list > > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/
