Ungernia post script and question.
James Waddick (Sat, 06 Sep 2003 09:17:19 PDT)
Your observation about the basal plate is quite interesting. Can you
tell if the tissue is living? Are you suggesting bulblets or some
kind of runners may form off of them for asexual propagation? It's a
very curious observation.
Dear All;
Hard to tell from a very small sample, but an article on the
genus shows a branched 'understem' with bulbs only at the end. Mine
looked pretty 'dead', but I suppose that this could produce a new
'branch' (i.e. 'bulbs') from a dormant bud in each node. - if there
actually are and they should be.
If I were really brave, I'd cut this off and plant it
separately to encourage these buds to break and produce new bulbs. I
just don't know all that much about these oddities.
I've never seen this in Lycoris or any other bulb.
Best Jim W.
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