Mystery Lycoris (...paging Jim Waddick...) -other?
Lee Poulsen (Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:52:38 PDT)
Paul Tyerman guessed and Alberto Castillo confirmed that it is
Habranthus estensis. How it got into that pot I guess I'll never know.
I have a smaller pot of seedling H. estensis that have flowered. But
they had much smaller and shorter scape stems and only one flower per
scape and smaller flowers that didn't open as widely as this mystery
flower. Thanks for everyone's help.
--Lee Poulsen
Pasadena area, California, USDA Zone 9-10
On Aug 26, 2004, at 6:20 PM, Eugene Zielinski wrote:
I finally took a look at Lee's mystery bulb. I can't offer any idea
of its
ID, but I can ramble.
When I saw the first picture, I thought "Habranthus." Then I saw the
second picture and threw that possibility out, since Habranthus
wouldn't
produce more than one flower to a stem. I thought "Crinum, maybe?"
But it
doesn't really look like a Crinum -- no floral tube, and the stigma
doesn't
look right.
One possibility is the pink form of Rhodophiala bifida (var.
spathacea.)
Whatever it is, it's a beautiful plant. Let's hope it multiplies and
divides.
Eugene Zielinski
Augusta, GA