Sun break photos
Jane McGary (Sun, 29 Feb 2004 13:51:50 PST)

Today I hurried out during a sun break (a weather term that seems to be
indigenous to the Pacific Northwest) and photographed a whole lot of bulbs,
then posted them on the wiki. I have some questions about two of them.

First, here is another mystery Narcissus:
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/…

There is a subsp. albidus of N. romieuxii, but I don't find occidentalis
among the epithets of any member of the Bulbocodium section in the
literature I have. Any ideas, Harold and Kathy?

Second, here is a really serious mystery Sternbergia:
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/…

The story of it is on the Photographs and Information page for Sternbergia.
In short, it has yellow flowers in fall and utterly S. candida-like foliage
in spring, and it was part of a batch of bulbs bought by Panayoti Kelaidis
in the early 1990s, which apparently had been wild-dug because there were
S. candida bulbs among them. Any ideas?

The other items include:
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/…
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/…
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/…
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/…
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/…
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/…
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/…
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/…
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/…

I've requested a page be set up for Corydalis, which I'm sure many of us
will be photographing in the coming weeks.

Jane McGary
Northwestern Oregon, USA