Curly Albucas
Jadeboy48@aol.com (Sun, 07 Apr 2013 23:00:24 PDT)

You will have a problem because depending on growing conditions the same
plant can look very different. I grow Albucas and A spiralis will have very
titely curled leaves in very bright light. In lower light the color changes
and the spirals open up. Best bet would be to compare flower structure. Buy
a dissecting microsope for 100$ and dissect the flowers in water. Look at
floral details very carefully. There are books on Albuca which has all
these details. If you live in the Phoenix metro area you can contact me and I
will loan my scope to you for a week (no charge of course). Russ H.

In a message dated 4/6/2013 1:56:22 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
zigur@hotmail.com writes:

Under my growing conditions, Albuca hallii flowers in midsummer when it is
leafless, A. spiralis flowers at the beginning of the growing season, as
the leaves emerge, and A. namaquensis at the end of the growing season,as
the plants are starting to go dormant.

Albuca hallii never has many leaves - usually 2 - as the other two, and
the leaves are grey as opposed to green, but the leaves vary significantly
depending on cultural conditions. There are a lot of mis-identified images
out there ...

T

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