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 >> >>_______________________________________________ >>pbs mailing list >>pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >>http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >> > >_______________________________________________ >pbs mailing list >pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >
