Wiki Additions
Mary Sue Ittner (Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:27:38 PDT)

Hi,

Since our list is a bit quiet at the moment I'd like to announce that there
has been a lot of activity on the wiki lately for those of you who don't
watch the recent edits. Below I have listed just some of the new additions.
Giorgio has been adding pictures of some interesting Zantedeschia hybrids:
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

Jay has created some new wiki pages for woodland plants with confused
family status. I've tried to explain the various possibilities for them on
their wiki pages.
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…
It is interesting to me that some of the genera that were moved from
Liliaceae to Convallariaceae are now considered to belong to Colchicaceae
and other are suggested by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group II to be moved to
a broader Asparagaceae or a narrower Ruscaceae. For a non taxonomist who
may have once thought she wanted to learn the families I'm not so sure now.
Along the way as I was trying to figure all of this for the wiki I learned
that some of my native flora has now been renamed so I created a new wiki
page for Maianthemum. We have a native Maianthemum that I've known by that
name, but it also appears that what I have been calling Smilacina is now
accepted by some to be better named Maianthemum. I rather liked the name
Smilacina and it is easier for me to pronounce.
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…
And I learned that my native Disporum has been put into its own genus,
Prosartes and only the Asian species are left in Disporum. So I'll be
making a Prosartes page when I get around to it.

After Jim Waddick asked about hardy Ornithogalums I added some new Southern
African Ornithogalum pictures to the wiki: mine, Alan Horstmann's and
Cameron McMaster's so a lot of them are habitat pictures. They probably
aren't hardy, but interesting just the same.
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…
Ornithogalum concordianum has wonderful coiled leaves. Other new species:
Ornithogalum constrictum, O. hispidum and new habitat pictures of O.
dubium, O. graminifolium
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…
There are new close-up pictures from Alan of O. pruinosum, O. suaveolens,
and O. thyrsoides

I have some more Ornithogalum pictures to add that we saw almost a year ago
now if I figure them out and if I don't figure them out I'll just add them
as sp. We saw a number of yellow species with green keels in Namaqualand
and the northwest Cape and I don't know if they are all the same species
and there were some white ones with green keels too.

Mary Sue

Mary Sue Ittner
California's North Coast
Wet mild winters with occasional frost
Dry mild summers