Peter: If anyone has an interest in aspidistra, you may find our aspidistra photo gallery of interest...currently with 118 photos of both the foliage and flowers. http://gallery.plantdelights.com/Aspidistra-Cast-I… Since it's hard for us to consider aspidistra as a bulb, tuber, or corm, we established an aspidistra chat group at http://tech.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspidistra/… Tony Avent Plant Delights Nursery @ Juniper Level Botanic Garden 9241 Sauls Road Raleigh, North Carolina 27603 USA Minimum Winter Temps 0-5 F Maximum Summer Temps 95-105F USDA Hardiness Zone 7b email tony@plantdelights.com website http://www.plantdelights.com/ phone 919 772-4794 fax 919 772-4752 "I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself...at least three times" - Avent -----Original Message----- From: pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Peter Taggart Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 12:19 PM To: Pacific Bulb Society Subject: Re: [pbs] Rohdea and Aspidistra I have about a ten Aspidistra species. I may have had Milky Way" but I think that it is one I lost in the green house, last winter, which was exceptionally cold There are several groups within Aspidistra and several types of flower too. They have a distribution including Yunan, ?Burma, Korea, Japan and ?Korea I dont have any Rohdea but I did buy a couple of Peliosanthes this spring. I believe that some on this forum are particularly well informed on Aspidistra and I too would be glad to hear what they might have to say. Peter On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 4:42 PM, The Silent Seed <santoury@aol.com> wrote: > > I have no clue why, but from the time I joined, I've seen nothing mentioned > about these two wonderfully fantastic genera. Is there anybody else out > there who appreciates and / or collects these? What are your favorites and > why? > I will start: I have a modest collection of about a dozen types and am > always looking for more. > My favorite Aspidistra is the sp. lurida Ginga ("milky way" - who has the > REAL milky way anyway? Is there a hard and fast rule to differentiate them?) > - I just get lost in each leaf with its' starry patterns of yellow dots. > For a Rohdea, my favorite is the plain jane japonica. I love the simplicity > of it. > The first time I saw an Aspidistra flower, I was dumfouned! I knew they > were held low, but this one was actually buried, and only visible after I > pulled the plant up. It looks exactly like a paw paw tree flower. Amazing! > Do share! > Jude > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >