Jane McGary wrote: >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? I'm chiming in for Sternbergia fischeriana, too. For me, this was a late winter bloomer, not a fall bloomer. The foliage on the plant I had years ago was the same color and even more upright and slightly twisted. Jim McKenney jimmckenney@starpower.net Montgomery County, Maryland, zone 7, where the temperature has reached 70 degrees F and all the coldframes are propped open. At 01:51 PM 2/29/2004 -0800, you wrote: >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 > >_______________________________________________ >pbs mailing list >pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >
