Babiana villosa

Babiana villosa
Darren Sage (Sat, 22 Oct 2005 14:30:08 PDT)

Hi Myke

I have since moved to Mexico and this informatioon is probably in a box in
an attic in the UK or at my old job at Warwick HRI. We went all over the
place.

Contact the orgaisers f te VII symposium at:
http://www.actahort.org/books/430/

Ask for the man who arranged the 4 day presymposium trip. His name was John
something. I think his surname began with G. You can mention me, he will
remember (Dr Darren Sage, HRI, UK). If you contact him, please pass his
e-mail too me.

Good luck!

Darren

From: "Myke Ashley-Cooper" <myke@new.co.za>
Reply-To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [pbs] Babiana villosa
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 17:28:42 +0200

Do you recall where you went? Nieuwoudtville, Darling, Kamieskroon, etc?
My very favorite is Babiana rubrocyanea known in Afrikaans as 'little wine
cup".

Regards
Myke
----- Original Message -----
From: Darren Sage
To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 6:58 AM
Subject: Re: [pbs] Babiana villosa

There are some stunning Babianas about in the wild in South Africa. I
am a
bulb scientist and was at the 'VII international symposium on floower
bulbs'
in Cape Town in 2000. An expert took us to see hundreds of bulb species
in
flower on a 4 day trip. We saw maroon babianas and a range of blue to
purple ones, some of which had not yet been given an official scientific
name. A magic trip! I want to go again.......... now!

Darren

I guess I will have to climb through some barbed wire fencing to access

whole lot of seed then!

----- Original Message -----
From: Alberto Castillo
To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 8:47 PM
Subject: Re: [pbs] Babiana villosa

From: "Myke Ashley-Cooper" <myke@new.co.za>
Reply-To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [pbs] Babiana villosa
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 07:48:29 +0200

At the east end of the village that I live in, Tulbagh, South

Africa,

there

is a stunning endemic maroon Babiana villosa which apparently only

grows in

this tiny area. Must I wait until the seeds are fully ripened

before

harvesting them or can they be picked green?

Dear Myke:
Will there be enough seed for the thousand members

PBS?!!!!

Regards
Alberto

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