Boophone planting

Ken kjblack@pacbell.net
Sun, 03 Apr 2016 12:41:12 PDT
Oops ... well ... that went bad.  I used to be able to add Flickr links without the previews ... which got filtered out here. 

      From: Ken <kjblack@pacbell.net>
 To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> 
 Sent: Sunday, April 3, 2016 12:14 PM
 Subject: Re: [pbs] Boophone planting
   
I have both the Summer-growing and Winter-growing Boophone disticha.  Same species, but different growing seasons depending on provenance.   Those from the Southwest Cape push their leaves during the Winter wet season, however, their growing seasons will not change if one tries to change their native watering regimen.  Those from the Eastern Cape and more tropical climes tend to be Summer growers.  Perhaps they actually should be separate species.   I have also saved/frozen the pollen of the Summer-growing 'variety' (blooms for me in April) and applied to Winter-growing 'variety' which blooms in July-August for me here in San Diego.   The resulting offspring prove to be nearly evergreen for me, unlike either of their parents ... and bloom reliably in May-June.  
Here they are in bloom in June, 2013:P1070485 - Boophone disticha, June 26, 2013, San Diego, CAone which has produced twins for 2 of the last 3 years:///P1070427/ - Boophone disticha, June 15, 2013, San Diego, CAtypical foliage of my Boophone disticha crosses:///P1000631/ - three not quite 4 yr old Boophone distichaand typical foliage of my Boophone haemanthoides:///P1010660/ - Boophone haemanthoides waking up, Oct 20, 2011
Ken BlackfordSan Diego

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    ...  Jim:

If you do indeed have Boophone disticha it would be a bit unusual.  It grows on the northern hemisphere summer schedule.

It may be Boophone  haemanthoides which grows during our winter.

I do believe there is some confusion about growth cycles.  It may depend on the origin the of the plant material....


  


  
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