New wiki Pix Ungernia
James Waddick (Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:18:27 PST)

Dear All,
My friend Panayoti Kelaidis travelled to Kazakhstan in late
summer. He sent me a couple pix and allowed me to share them with PBS
friends. Mary Sue was kind enough to wrangle these on to the wiki.

The pix are taken on the border of Kazakhstan and Kyrgestan
in a steppe filled with Ungernia sewerzowii gone to seed. The
pictures clearly show the 'odd" ,but perfectly normal seed of this
genus. Ungernia is the closest relative to Lycoris in the Family
Amaryllidaceae and these seed pods look very similar. The seed itself
could hardly be more different. Ungernia seed is flat , black and
papery like many warm climate Amarayllids, while Lycoris have hard,
round, black, pea-size seed.

We can only hope that Panayoti brought back lots of seeds and
will soon be offering photos of a bank of Ungernia in bloom at Denver
Botanic Garden.

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

Thanks to PK and MSI. Jim W.
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