Dear Shelley, Your trip to Brazil sounds wonderful too. Do you correspond with Alberto Castillo? He knows a great deal about the amaryllids of Brazil, especially the plains area. A local guide will help you, of course. Be sure to consult your doctor about immunizations before you go. There are some serious diseases endemic to southern Brazil -- one reason I've avoided it so far, even though it contains Alstroemeria species, my special interest. (Also I don't speak Portuguese though I can read it.) As I was making up our party for Chile, two people in a row had to cancel because of family illness, but we now have a carful again. My task for the coming week is to prepare the itinerary, get it approved, and make hotel reservations. Fortunately I've stayed in most of the towns where we'll be stopping and know which hotels to contact. Someday I hope to visit Queensland, particularly to see the birds. I spent 3 weeks in southern Australia, including Tasmania, a few years ago and enjoyed the birds perhaps even more than the plants. I'll probably sign up for a package tour rather than driving myself. However, if you know anyone who might be interested, I've often thought it would be nice to exchange private "guided tours" with people from other countries who would like to see our western American mountains -- especially given the anxiety of switching driving from left to right and vice versa. I drove myself around New Zealand and the part of Australia I visited, but I didn't enjoy that part of it! Have a great time, Jane McGary At 07:02 PM 8/5/2011, you wrote: >Dear Jane, >I have had to let the trip in Chile go because I have to be back in >Queensland by beginning of October. I have almost organised a guided >trip in Brazil for the first two weeks of September starting at Sao >Paulo Airport hoping to see a number of amaryllids in flower. There >is space for one or two others if anyone is interested. I have a >probable itinerary which we are working on. >Shelley Gage Australia > >On 06/08/11, Jane McGary <janemcgary@earthlink.net> wrote: > > > > Kathleen wrote, > > >Can anyone tell me about Lobelia tupa? Mine had one stalk for 2-3 > > >years, flowering late each summer. This year there are 5 plants, all > > >about 3-5 ft from the original. I'm trying to decide if these are > > >seedlings or shoots from underground runners. > > > > My Chilean native plants for the garden book mentions propagating > > this species only from seed, not from root cuttings. In nature one > > sees this species as a single clumping plant or as a colony, but I > > don't know if the colonies are formed by seed or stolons. Seedlings > > should be noticeably smaller than the parent plant, which when mature > > can have a stalk up to 2 meters tall or even more. However, when I > > grew it in the Pacific Northwest, it never got that tall. > > > > Jane McGary > > Portland, Oregon, USA > > > > _______________________________________________ > > pbs mailing list > > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > > >_______________________________________________ >pbs mailing list >pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Text inserted by Panda GP 2011: > > This message has NOT been classified as spam. If it is unsolicited > mail (spam), click on the following link to reclassify it: > http://localhost/Panda/… >---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------