>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 _________________________________________________________________ MSN Amor: busca tu ½ naranja http://latam.msn.com/amor/