Brunsvigia josephine blooming

For those of you near the SF Bay Area, we have an enormous Brunsvigia
josephine coming into bloom this week at the UC Botanical Garden; it
should be fully opened in the next few days. I've noticed that the giant
bulbs (larger than footballs) tend to split to form mutliple bulbs but
may initially miss a bloom when they first do this. We've also had
our first B. marginata bloom this past week and its trully spectacular.

Paul Licht, Director
Univ. California Botanical Garden
200 Centennial Drive
Berkeley, CA 94720
(510)-643-8999
http://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/

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Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 19:00:14 +0100
From: Tom Mitchell <tom@evolution-plants.com>
Subject: Re: [pbs] Mystery Irid
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As several others have suggested, I agree that the plant is a
Crocosmia. It looks like a form of C. aurea or C. masoniorum or
perhaps a cross between the two, of which there are several good
examples, e.g. 'Comet'. the book to consult is Crocosmia and
Chasmanthe by Goldblatt, Manning and Dunlop. Gary Dunlop owns
Ballyrogan Nurseries in Northern Ireland and probably knows more
about this genus in cultivation than anyone. His email address (which
isn't a State secret, since you can readily find it via Google) is
gary.dunlop[at]btinternet.com. He may be able to put a name on it for
you.

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Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 11:55:16 -0700
From: totototo@telus.net
Subject: Re: [pbs] Pacific Coast lily species
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On 3 Sep 2009, at 19:35, info@auchgourishbotanicgarden.org wrote:

Could anyone suggest an individual or nursery ... able and willing to
supply ... seed or bulbs of three different wild origin provenances of
botanical lilium taxa native to the Pacific coastal region of North America...

Your message is, I am afraid, unclear. Are you looking for specific lily taxa,
specific locations, specific lilies from specific locations, or any old lily
from any three distinct locations?

If you are interested in specific taxa, what are they? If specific locations,
where are they?