Wiki additions

Please don’t be discouraged by the lack of response
to the postings to the wiki. I have found it to be the
norm that very few people send compliments or
acknowledgements to those that work hard in
organizations and provide benefits. The The PBS Wiki
is a fantastic resource. You probably touch the lives
of many gardeners who are looking for a small bit of
information and never join PBS or any other
organization. It is somewhat of a miracle the amount
of information that gets placed free upon the world
wide web. That small subset of the population, like
yourself, that share their work for the world to see,
deserve special recognition. Unfortunately only a
small subset try to advance that effort by supporting
the organizations that make it possible and an even
smaller subset aid in that work. I regret to say that
I have not contributed any photos, but for the last
year my camera has been in another state and I have
not been able to take any. Be assured that when I can,
I will do my part to help. In the meantime I can only
pay my dues and send you this thank you for a job that
is being done very well.

Bob Pries

--- Mary Sue Ittner <msittner@mcn.org> wrote:

Hi,

I'm never sure if I should keep announcing wiki
additions since I almost
never get any feedback to know if anyone does more
than delete the post. So
perhaps people who care should write me privately
and I could just have a
short list I could send an announcement to. I know
some of the others who
add pictures have stopped telling people about their
additions for the same
reason.

I just added some more Massonia pictures to the
wiki. I also looked up the
key in the Cape Encyclopedia and see that it is the
stamens that are the
distinguishing factors in telling the species apart.
Massonia depressa has
anthers that are more than 2mm. M. pygmaea besides
being smaller has
filaments of two lengths. Massonia pustulata has
filaments longer than 10
mm (to 24mm.) and Massonia echinata 10 mm or less.
So it looks like you
need to measure to be sure of what you have. I went
out and looked at my M.
depressa and the anthers really are bigger. You
can't see these subtle
differences in pictures. Photos added: Massonia
depressa from Cameron
McMaster, Massonia echinata from Alan Horstmann (an
unusual color) and
pustulate, Massonia jasminiflora from me and now
blooming, Massonia
pustulata being pollinated (sorry these pictures
aren't clearer, I had very
little time to get a tripod or even be sure of my
settings, but was
fascinated watching the pollinator go from anther to
anther), Massonia
pustulata from Cameron, and finally Massonia pygmaea
from Alan.

http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

I also added a few more Haemanthus pictures a couple
of days ago. The first
is of a hybrid I believe. Doug Westfall sent me seed
of H. albiflos and one
of the seedlings was distinctly different.

http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

And I added pictures of H. pauculifolius now
blooming for awhile in my
greenhouse. I obtained this from Telos a number of
years ago, but this is
the first time it has bloomed and I quite like it.

http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

I also added a picture of an additional Dietes
species that we saw in the
Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney. This species,
Dietes robinsoniana, is
native to Cape Howe Island, an island off Australia.
I added an additional
picture from Alan Horstmann of Dietes bicolor at the
same time.

http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

Finally about a week ago I added a wiki page for
Chamaescilla

http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

This is an Australian genus with blue flowers. It's
a charming little plant
we saw a number of times when we visited in
September. It is not in the
Hyacinth family, but in the Anthericaceae family
along with some other
Australian plants with the unusual root system that
annually grows tuberous
roots from a cormlike stem. This family has been
included in Agavaceae or
optionally Asparagaceae by APG II. Since
Hyacinthaceae is also optionally
included in Asparagaceae that is one way genera with
blue flowers that have
scilla in the name can be together.

Mary Sue

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