What's in Bloom in Pots- Nerine id
Matt Mattus (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:16:00 PDT)
Thanks All
I posted photos on my blog, the flowers are smaller than I first thought.
Closer to a half inch or 3/4 of and inch. This Nerine has foliage which has
started to yellow,yet there are many buds.
Jim Jones - Yes, since you live only a few miles away, you may be right that
this is N. filifolia, let's compare photos.
http://www.growingwithplants.com/
Kirby - I am curious as you what you feel this might be.
Jim Shields - I know, I too was torn between these species you listed, since
I have owned at lease three of these at one time. N. frithii was the only
one which I could ID as a grassy-foliage autumnal bloomer which was very
distinctive.
Thanks all, let me know.
Matt
Matt Mattus
Worcester, MA
Zone 5
On 8/31/10 11:47 PM, "Kirby Fong" <kfong@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
Matt,
Your unidentified Nerine is possibly Nerine filifolia. The grass like
foliage looks like the picture 98 opposite page 67 in Wild Flowers of
Southern Africa by Sima Eliovson, Seventh edition, 1984,
ISBN 0 86954 088 2. Following is her description. See if it matches
your plant. Remember, she's talking about the southern hemisphere
seasons.
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