Oxalis

Oxalis
Mary Sue Ittner (Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:39:17 PST)

Dear All,

I'm not sure I thanked everyone for providing me with the information about
Oxalis so I could make corrections on the Oxalis wiki pages. Like Jane I
live in a rural area with a slow connection so working on the wiki is very
time consuming for me but I think I have made most of the changes and added
a link to Robin Attrill's introduction for the topic of the week as well.
Thank you all. Let me know if I have missed something. And does anyone have
any information about Oxalis tomentosa which is illustrated by Bill Dijk?

I haven't yet found the time to write about the cultivars using the email
address supplied by David Victor, but hopefully will find time.

Because I am the proud owner of a watercolor painting by Zoë Carter (A
grouping of a Moraea, Babiana, and Geissorhiza) I especially loved the
Collection of Oxalis that Bill Dijk added to the bottom of the Oxalis page.
I wondered if he could identify what each one was and he kindly added names
so I have added a second photo with the names written over the different
species. Since most all of them are South African I have added this picture
to the South African Oxalis page as well at the bottom. So if you missed
this you might want to look at it.

Other additions to the South African page are a picture of Oxalis karooica
furnished by Andrew Wilson of his plants currently in bloom and one I took
yesterday of Oxalis commutata which increases to a frightening degree and
blooms for me in fall. From my experience it increases much faster than the
Oxalis I have from Michael Vassar he identified as O. caprina which has
tiny tufted leaves. That one is supposed to be weedy. Anyone outside of
South Africa found that to be true? Oxalis commutata is illustrated in my
Karoo field guide where is is described as appearing in flats after good
spring rains. In the Cape it blooms from April to June which makes me
wonder if you could manipulate it so you could have some going in the fall
and some in the spring.

http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

Mary Sue

PBS List Administrator, Wiki Worker, TOW Coordinator (Whew!)