Papilio 'improved'?
John Bryan (Thu, 15 Apr 2004 08:51:12 PDT)
dear lee:
As you live in Pasadena, nip over to the Huntigton and check out their
planting of papilio. It would be good to hear your comments. Cheers,
John E. Bryan
Lee Poulsen wrote:
I ordered one of these from Scheepers a few years ago, because I also
thought it looked kind of like a cybister x papilio cross. When it
finally bloomed, it looked exactly like H. papilio. It has proven to be
very vigorous and blooms with multiple stalks. (This year my one-gallon
pot has four scapes so far.) And the flowers last longer than my
ordinary papilios. Either I got a straight papilio that was mislabeled
or could I have gotten an F2 that happens to appear just like the
papilio parent only more vigorous? It doesn't look anything like the
picture in the catalog.
--Lee Poulsen
Pasadena area, California, USDA Zone 9-10
On Apr 14, 2004, at 7:50 AM, Cynthia Mueller wrote:
There is a cultivar in circulation known as 'Papilio Improved' which
looks very like the spidery cybister hybrids. I have viewed it lately
on the Scheepers website, I believe.
At first when I saw reference to 'Papilio Improved' I thought that
meant it would bloom more readily or stay open longer. Now I see that
it looks very, very different from Papilio.
Cynthia Mueller
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