Brunsvigia josephinae
piaba (Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:12:26 PDT)
dear dr. licht,
your post brought back memories of visting the berkeley gardens and seeing this plant for the first time. back then the bulbs were not that big, as i recall. also, remember seeing the beautiful large african Dioscorea tubers such as elephantipes and another one (maybe rupicola).
btw, please remember to not send back the whole digest to the list when replying. thank you.
ken, that is just gigantic. thanks for posting that photo.
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tsuh yang
For those of you in the SF Bay Area that haven't yet seen a
Brunsvigia
josephine in bloom, that a very large one is fully open in
the Botanical
Garden now. These bulbs are larger than footballs. These
plants are the
source of seedlings we offer. Rather than offsets, they
appear to split
in half.
Paul