Schizostylis - friend or foe!!
Paul Tyerman (Fri, 21 Feb 2003 00:23:37 PST)

At 11:37 20/02/03 -0800, you wrote:

Runners to a metre in Australia! They are rhizomatous here, but stay
in tight clumps on clay soil, and are a bit looser on sand, but never
even 20 cm.long. Maybe Australia received a long-rhizome form.

Diane,

I don't know about others, but mine definitely had a few LONG runners sent
out from it. Mostly they were within the foot, but 2 or three appeared a
long way away and when I went to pull them out I found that they had a
runner thread leading back to the main clump (otherwise I would have
assumed they were seedlings). That was when all the warning bells went off
<grin>.

I don't know how others here in the land of Oz have found them?

Cheers.

Paul Tyerman
Canberra, Australia. USDA equivalent - Zone 8/9
mailto:ptyerman@ozemail.com.au

Growing.... Galanthus, Erythroniums, Fritillarias, Cyclamen, Crocus,
Cyrtanthus, Liliums, Hellebores, Aroids, Irises plus just about anything
else that doesn't move!!!!!