OT: Silphium hybrid

Cynthia Mueller cynthiasbulbs@hotmail.com
Thu, 03 Sep 2015 03:45:34 PDT
It will be a classic plant, if hummingbirds are able to drink from the cups! The other morning I watched a youngster taking a bath in water droplets clinging to the top of a climbing rose - it "talked to itself" in enthusiasm the whole time. The water-containing cups on plants such as silphium are probably important to a number of creatures. -Cynthia Mueller, Central Texas

Cynthia W Mueller

> On Sep 3, 2015, at 4:55 AM, Dennis Kramb <dkramb@badbear.com> wrote:
> 
> Sorry for the OT post, but I need some feedback (off-list is fine) from
> people familiar with Genus Silphium.  My Silphium brachiatum and S.
> perfoliatum seem to have hybridized in my garden.  I'd like a second
> opinion!  Please click the link.
> 
> http://www.badbear.com/Silphium/silphium.html
> 
> If this is the first such hybrid do I get to name it S. x krambii or
> anything like that?  :-D
> 
> Thanks,
> Dennis in Cincinnati
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