Dear All,
The items listed below have been donated by people from all over the
world, to be shared. If you are interested in obtaining some of them, please
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From Marilyn Pekasky:
1. Crinum kirkii seed from the UC Berkeley Botanic Garden. The flower is
very similar to C. bulbispermum and C. graminicola, but the stem is about
half the length of the other two species. Also, the seed is extremely
small. Here's an interesting link re indigenous people using C. kirkii as
boundary markers in Kenya: http://www.fao.org/docrep/U8995E/u8995e07.htm.
It also occurs in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, and grows and flowers
after the grasses have been burned. It has the common name of Pajama Lily,
but I can't find out where that comes from.
According to Bryan: Zanzibar and East Africa; introduced 1879. Stems 12-18
inches, flowers white with red keels, late summer.
Here's the description from http://www.webguru.com/crinum.htm:
CRINUM kirkii (Kirk's).* fl. twelve to fifteen in an umbel; perianth tube
greenish, 4in. long; limb horizantal, 5in. long; segments acuminate, above
1in. broad, furnished with a bright red stripe down the back; peduncles
sometimes more than one to a bulb, 1ft. to 1 1/2ft. long, ancipitous.
September. l. lorate, acuminate, 3 1/4ft. to 4ft. long, 4in. to 4 1/2in.
broad; margin crisped, white, distinctly ciliated. Bulb globose, 6in. to
8in. in diameter. Zanzibar, 1879. Stove. (B. M. 6512.)
From Joyce Miller:
2. Seed of a yellow Cooperia cv. The source is uncertain. One pot I got
from a friend. The other was sown from NARGS seeds and labeled Cooperia
herbertiana. Cooperia has now been lumped into Habranthus, I understand.
Anyway, loves hot weather, blooms readily and multiple times during the
summer. Hence, great seed harvests.
3. Bulbs of a large, lavender Allium.
From Gregg DeChirico:
4. Seed of Arum italicum. from a feral population near Ocean Beach, San
Francisco, CA.
From Lynn Makela:
SEED (some in short supply) :
5. Hippeastrum gracilis 'Firy Bouquet', very floriferous red.
6. Daubenya aurea
7. Habranthus gracilifolius
8. Zephyranthes jacala (Z. katherinae var. jacala?)
9. Lycoris radiata, dwarf form
10. Ixia pumila
11. Zephyranthes reginae 'Valle's Yellow'
12. Ennealophus euryandrus
13. Ixia maculata
BULBS (some in short supply):
14. Oxalis brasiliensis
15. Oxalis lasiandra
16. Oxalis versicolor 'Candycane'
17. Oxalis purpurea 'Garnet'
18. Babiana stricta 'Blue Gem'
Thank you, Marilyn, Joyce, Gregg, and Lynn !!
Best wishes,
Dell
--Dell Sherk, Director, Pacific BX