Oxalis in bloom
Mary Sue Ittner (Wed, 02 Apr 2003 08:01:49 PST)

Dear All,

As my Oxalis obtusas fade and many of the other winter growing ones are
dying back Oxalis brasiliensis is just starting to bloom. And I am finding
it in quite a lot of my pots. Last year I sterilized any of the soil I
reused. I tried to find all the Oxalis bulbs before I cooked my soil but
some were so small I missed them. I theorized they wouldn't survive being
cooked. Wrong...

Since Paul Tyerman just had a bulb blooming in Australia that he thought
was this species I wanted to show him and everyone else what the real thing
looks like. The leaves I find attractive and it is a low mat but I wonder
if it could get weedy judging from all the ones that are turning up. Mine
is just starting to bloom, but last year was covered with flowers for a
couple of months (April, May) so the one in the picture will have more
flowers later. I hope some of you who got the ones I sent to the BX last
fall are having success with them. I uploaded some pictures to the Wiki and
added the urls with a description to the Oxalis page:
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

And just to follow Kelly Irwin's lead and since I don't have a child for
scale, I asked my dog to pose next to the pot so you can get a sense of the
size. I didn't put this picture on the Oxalis page. It will expire in a few
weeks.
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/…

Mary Sue