Hello All,
Just a short note. Haemanthus coccineus seedlings are usually hirsute for
the first 2-4 years. A few might even continue to have fine hair on the
leaves for another year or two. This is so for plants from most
localities.
Regards,
Alan Horstmann

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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:34:10 -0600
From: James Waddick <jwaddick@kc.rr.com>
Subject: [pbs] BX 148 - PBS benefits
To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
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Dear friends,
When I saw this listed as "If this is too common for your
cultured tastes, but it is one of my favorite oxalis."
I had to at least try.

I admit to never purposely growing an oxalis, but had to try this one.

Today I noticed that 4 flowers were open in the cool
greenhouse. Charming and certainly easy.

Thanks Dell, Thanks Roy.

And by the way, also open were a few flowers on Tulbaghia
simmleri (fragrans) -the typical violet form from the late Dave
Karnstedt, a trade from me for a start of my 'alba'. I left the pots
out a bit too long and the foliage is pretty ratty, although my
'alba' is even rattier and it is not blooming.

The BX is a great part of PBS and the opportunity to make
interesting trades is always there.

Keep it up, guys. Best Jim W.
--
Dr. James W. Waddick
8871 NW Brostrom Rd.
Kansas City Missouri 64152-2711
USA
Ph. 816-746-1949
Zone 5 Record low -23F
Summer 100F +

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Message: 10
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:03:52 -0800
From: Mary Sue Ittner <msittner@mcn.org>
Subject: [pbs] New wiki pages
To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org
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Hi,

I've added pictures of two more genera of tuberous terrestrial orchids we
saw in Australia. The first is:
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

These are blue orchids, formerly included in Caladenia. I haven't done the
wiki page for that one yet because it will take me longer since we saw so
many different species (some I'm still trying to figure out.) Jim Waddick
asked me to include the sizes of my Australian additions. I think this is
a
fair request even though I expect many of our wiki photographs don't
include this information. You often can't tell from the pictures,
especially if all you see is a close up of the flowers. Many of the
orchids
we saw have a single leaf a long way away from the flower and difficult to
get in focus in a picture if you want the flower in focus too. Both of the
ones we saw are Western Australia endemics.

The second wiki page is:
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…
This is a genus with only two species found in other areas of Australia.
We
saw one of the species in several places in Victoria. They are really
beautiful flowers and the ones we saw ranged in color from white to dark
purple. The first day we saw them it was very windy and frustrating as
they
would blow out of your frame. I captured a pollinator doing its thing on
one of them, but it wasn't in focus as well as the picture I took seconds
later when it rested before it flew away so that's the one I added. I'm
not
sure what the pollinator was. We also saw this species toward the end of
our trip when we were staying in Apollo Bay. Bob and I took a walk by
ourselves on the Great Ocean Walk one day. This walk on Victoria's
spectacular west coast, stretches 91 kms starting at Apollo Bay. We
weren't
seeing nearly as many flowers in this area as we had seen in other areas
on
our trip although there were wonderful views, waterfalls, birds, tree
ferns, and koalas. I read the description for all the day hikes for this
walk that wouldn't be too far away for us to drive to from where we were
staying and only one mentioned flowers. We had been told we were too early
for flowers or that there were no flowers each time we asked. We were very
pleased when the description turned out to be correct. We saw a lot of
orchids including hundreds of Glossodia major in one spot. This was a very
interesting stretch to walk as the habitats and soils changed as you walk
and accordingly so did the flowers you saw.

Mary Sue

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Message: 11
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:50:27 +0200
From: "Rogan Roth" <Roth@ukzn.ac.za>
Subject: [pbs] Ammocharis coranica pollen
To: <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
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I have a white-flowered form of Ammocharis coranica flowering at the
moment and have collected some pollen from it. This I will dry and freeze.

If anybody would like some of this pollen please send me your postal
address - first come first served as I don't have very much available.

I have tried to upload a picture of it to the wiki, but the wiki is
offline at the moment (at least to me), however I will forward a picture
to you on request.

Regards
Rogan.

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Message: 12
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:20:47 -0500
From: "Dell Sherk" <dells@voicenet.com>
Subject: [pbs] Pacific BX 160 CLOSED
To: "'Adam Fikso'" <adam14113@ameritech.net>, "'c'"
<CathyCraigEA@hotmail.com>, "'Macfarlane'" <macfarla@almaden.ibm.com>,
"'Mark'" <Antennaria@aol.com>, "'Mark Wilcox'" <marque219@yahoo.com>,
"Pat Colville" <Pat.Colville@JHResearchUSA.com>, "PBS list"
<pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>, "The Masterson Family" <masterson4@cox.net>
Message-ID: <20071121142112.A21074C00F@lists.ibiblio.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Dear All,

Everything is claimed. Packages should go out after the weekend. Happy
Thanksgiving to our American members.

Best wishes,

Dell

Dell Sherk, Director, PBS BX

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Message: 13
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:15:04 -0800
From: Mary Sue Ittner <msittner@mcn.org>
Subject: [pbs] Wiki
To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org
Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.2.20071121070347.0350d268@mail.mcn.org>
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Hi,

I got a note this morning that there was a hardware failure (network
switch) at ibibilio and that some of the systems weren't working. There
was
a second note saying that after working on this seven hours the problem
was
fixed. The database for our wiki doesn't seem to be operational however
and
I looked at some of the other wikis on ibiblio and they aren't working
either.

The data base (mysql) was not working very well when I added the last
pages
(slow, sometimes generating error messages) so this problem may be
separate
from the other problem. I've sent in a request for help. In the meantime
the photos are still available since the pictures do not require the
database.
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/

Mary Sue

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