Tocantinia

Lee Poulsen wpoulsen@pacbell.net
Mon, 25 Jul 2016 17:13:05 PDT
Thanks for posting this David. Mariano Saviello mentioned this paper and showed Dylan Hannon and me some photos a week ago when he made a quick visit to Los Angeles. A number of years ago Mauro Peixoto offered seeds of Tocantinia mira and I managed to get a few and germinate them. However, since I could find utterly no information about them and how they should be grown, I defaulted to growing them with my other Brazilian Hippeastrum species. I ended up with 2 or 3 seedlings that hardly grew at all although they kept coming back every year for a number of years. I think my default care was a mistake given the statement in the new entry in the wiki that “this bulbous genus is endemic to Brazil and grows in in chemically poor, shallow and sandy soils from the Cerrado Biome. Flowering occurs after a rainfall that marks the beginning of the rainy season and lasts about two to three days once a year some time from November to January.” I’m sure I watered them far too much during the warmer part of the year, and kept their soil too moist during the winter. They finally disappeared a couple of years ago.

By chance did anyone else get some of these seeds and get them to grow properly, or even thrive?

--Lee Poulsen
Pasadena, California, USA - USDA Zone 10a
Latitude 34°N, Altitude 1150 ft/350 m


> On Jul 24, 2016, at 4:44 PM, David Pilling <david@pilling.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We recently added a new genus of Amaryllidaceae - Tocantinia - to the PBS wiki:
> 
> http://goo.gl/QmEpum/
> 
> Original URL:
> 
> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…
> 
> 
> -- 
> David Pilling
> http://www.davidpilling.com/
> _______________________________________________



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