Phycella not
Alberto Castillo (Sun, 19 Dec 2004 15:48:13 PST)

From: Matt Mattus <mmattus@charter.net>
Reply-To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [pbs] Phycella not
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 16:17:52 -0500

These Phycella look surprisingly like my Cyrtanthus elatus Hybrids. Any
thoughts?
As mine are aging, the umbels are loosening up and the flowers are facing
upwards more. I am not familiar with these Phycella species. But they sure
look similar to the pics I posted last week on the Cyrtanthus Hybrids page.

Matt Mattus
Worcester, Massachusetts
Zone 5
Light Snow today. 27 deg F

On 12/18/04 11:12 AM, "Mary Sue Ittner" <msittner@mcn.org> wrote:

Dear All,

Every day I look at what has been added to the wiki and make the
appropriate changes when needed. This morning there was a change on the

a

that didn't make any sense (spaces were added), so I checked out the
history and saw that someone had started to write a note on this page

and

then changed their mind and edited it again to take the note off and in
doing so had added spaces. The note said that Lee's pictures were not of
Phycella, that Phycella could not be imported from the Netherlands into

the

USA. The writer suspected they were Cyrtanthus which was one of Lee's
suspicions. I looked through my messages to see if I could figure out

what

we decided when we discussed it and all I could find was a subsequent

note

from Lee that Alberto had told him these were not Phycella, but he

couldn't

remember what he told him, maybe Rhodophiala. So we should have removed
this page and it dropped through the cracks. Before I do that, would

some

of you take a look at it and let me know whether we should try to rename
them or just take them off. We have a lot of Cyrtanthus hybrid pictures

so

if that is what it is, we could save one and say it was received as
Phycella, but is probabably..... That could help someone who had gotten
them like Lee and wondered what they were. Thanks to the mystery editor

who

may or may not be on our list who alerted me. How I wish that some of

the

recent bogus changes were as helpful.

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

Dear Matt, Mary Sue, Lee:
Of course these Phycellas look so alike Cyrtanthus!! They are Cyrtanthi and
not Phycella at all!!! I think it was Cathy who sent an image of a fine
bouquet of Rhodophialas in several colors that were sold as Phycella by the
Dutch last year.
Best

Alberto

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