Sun break photos
Jim McKenney (Mon, 01 Mar 2004 13:27:21 PST)

I've learned that there is nothing like clicking on "send" to momentarily
enhance my editorial abilities.

No sooner had I sent the last message about Jane's mystery Sternbergia than
I noticed that Mark uses the spelling fischerana.

Is this a repeat of the Tulipa fosteriana/Tulipa fosterana thing?

Jim McKenney
jimmckenney@starpower.net
Montgomery County, Maryland 20852 where all underutilized "i's" are on the
emerging sprouts

At 04:16 PM 3/1/2004 -0500, you wrote:

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

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