Whoops, my clay feet are showing. Dell From: ds429 <ds429@frontier.com> >To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> >Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 4:56 PM >Subject: Re: [pbs] Growing in cracks between boulders: worsleya > > >Hi Alberto, > >Thanks for the correction. Shouldn't you post it to the group? I know that my voice is still only that of an amateur grower. However, I do like the image of blooming worsleyas clothing the edges of Angel Falls. > >I have retired from teaching and am living in the US state of West Virginia, part of Appalachia. The economy is dismal for the locals, but it is ok for me, and I have a big sloping, south-facing yard for growing stuff. > >I hope that you and yours are well and happy. >Dell > >From: Alberto Castillo <ezeizabotgard@hotmail.com> >>To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> >>Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 4:22 PM >>Subject: Re: [pbs] Growing in cracks between boulders: worsleya >> >> >>Dell, it grows in full sun on steep slopes of odd looking mountains much like coneheads of the Dan Aykroyd movie. No waterfalls around that could water them. In fact, the only water is from heavens during the warmer season. The shallow layer they grow on is a mixture of fibrous decomposed vegetation, coarse degraded rock from the mountain face and charred vegetation remnants from occasional fires. This is all there is and few cracks if any that would provide a larger body of layer. Most of the bulbs and the long necks are exposed to the sun. The plants has a massive root system that colonizes the spot around the bulb, never going deep as the smooth rock face would not allow this. Therefore the roots are more subject to conditions similar to an epiphyte than a "normal" bulb as we know them. >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>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/ > >