Hippeastrum equestere?
Cynthia Mueller (Mon, 29 Mar 2004 04:50:20 PST)

Lee: yes, these are very similar. Yours has slightly narrower petals,
but that can't make that much difference. Its anthers, tho, are small
and yellowish like mine, but not like the large, mauvish anthers on the
example from Monticello. This is certainly an orange flower! I'm
thankful to have raised some from seed, because the parent bulb now has
virus streaks on the leaves.

Cynthia Mueller

wpoulsen@pacbell.net 03/29/04 01:17AM >>>

Cynthia, look at the photo I uploaded under the species name of H.
puniceum. <http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…> I

was told at some point in the past that H. equestre is just a synonym

for H. puniceum. My photo didn't turn out that well, but your photo
looks a lot like the flowers on my plants. It's the most orange-y Hipp.

I've ever seen. I got my bulbs in Maui, Hawaii.

--Lee Poulsen
Pasadena area, California, USDA Zone 9-10

On Mar 28, 2004, at 6:11 PM, Cynthia Mueller wrote:

More on the "orange" Hippeastrum. Today I was looking at a very
similar
bloom on a Hipp. equestere from Monticello, grown by Dr. William C.
Welch, College Station, Tx. They are almost identical in size,

color,

etc. but the anthers on the just-opened Monticello flowers are very
large and colored a dusty mauve. Are one or both of these

equestere?

Do they have variants? Please help - Kevin or Alan - your thoughts?

http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/
Hippeastrum_Orange_Mystery_cwm.jpg

Cynthia W. Mueller

c-mueller@tamu.edu 03/27/04 08:26PM >>>

My seed strain of "orange Hippeastrum" has begun to bloom. The

parent

plant was found in the woods near Sealy (Central Texas), planted out
from a grandmother's garden. There are only two blooms per stalk,
leaves are small and rather low. This is the plant that has a
cream-colored "mask" at the throat. So far (several) seem true to
seed,
altho I do have other strains at work in the garden. More pics to
follow of them.
Who could tell me what this is?

http://ibiblio.pbs/pbswiki/files/…

Cynthia W. Mueller
College Station, TX
Zone 8b-9
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