More wiki photos
Lee Poulsen (Tue, 24 Aug 2004 16:24:32 PDT)

I've added several photos to the wiki, in particular some of another
blooming I've had of Lycoris sprengeri here in southern California,
where it's blooming alongside the Amaryllis belladonna that so easily
grow and bloom here. I like the various shades of pink, magenta, and
white of the Amaryllis a lot. But the blue in L. sprengeri is just
fantastic.

--Lee Poulsen
Pasadena area, California, USDA Zone 9-10

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Griffinia aracensis
My G. aracensis finally bloomed this year. The flowers are smaller than
those of G. espiritensis or G. liboniana and the petals are much
narrower. The leaves are also smaller and much narrower than those of
espiritensis or liboniana.

Griffinia liboniana
And just one more photo of a full head of this beauty [Griffinia
liboniana], taken August 2004.

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Orthrosanthus chimboracensis
Mine finally bloomed and isn't nearly as blue as Mary Sue's plants, in
fact it's nearly white.

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Habranthus tubispathus var. roseus
finally bloomed for me from seed. The photos show what the flower looks
like face on and what the outside of the petals look like.

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Crinum oliganthum
When I bought this from Yucca Do Nursery, they called it Crinum sp.
mini-americanum. It is also called 'West Indies mini' Crinum. Their
pictures show six-petaled flowers, but these are only five-petaled. The
plant is very small, growing in a 1 gallon container.

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Lycoris radiata var. radiata
This is the sterile triploid form, received from Jim Waddick, and
common throughout much of the southern USA. (See Lycoris sprengeri for
a photo of the two species blooming together showing the difference in
color and form.)

Lycoris sprengeri
Here are photos of two separate scapes from the same bulb (from Jim
Waddick) blooming once again in southern California, showing how the
amount of blue can change from scape to scape. (The first scape <first
photo> bloomed when the temperatures were very hot, mid-to-high 90s F.
<high 30s C.>, and are more pink. The second scape <second and third
photos>, which bloomed when the temperatures were unusually low for
August, upper 70s F. <mid 20s C.> are much more blue.) The
electric-blue buds are particularly spectacular.

Lycoris sprengeri & Lycoris radiata radiata
Since these happened to be in bloom at the same time, I had to take a
photo of them together to show how different in color and form two
Lycoris can be.