This discussion reminds me of a question I have had about these species. I read that T. peduncularis and to a lesser degree T. hyacinthina are moisture-loving. Do they nevertheless require dry dormancy in the heat of summer? Regards, Chris On Sep 27, 2013, at 12:47 PM, John Wickham <jwickham@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > Sounds like we're all in the same neighborhood. I tried the Google search as well and the photos were confounding. I actually have all three, but of course the question didn't occur to me until they went dormant. I'll have to wait til May or June, I guess. Grateful for the insight into the seller's strategies. > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Mary Sue Ittner <msittner@mcn.org> > To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> > Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 11:25 AM > Subject: Re: [pbs] White Triteleia Question > > > Probably the only way you could know for sure is to grow them all and > compare them. I looked at the photos of some of the offerings and > they don't show the parts of the flowers that would help you figure > out whether they could be a white form of Triteleia laxa, Triteleia > peduncularis that someone decided to name, or Triteleia hyacinthina. > Since all of these species show great variation in nature depending > on where they are found and many have a broad distribution, it gets > even more complicated. Brent and Becky's sell two of them and they > don't tell you how tall 'Silver Queen' gets, but say that 'White > Sweep' is a form of Triteleia laxa that grows to 24". Another web > site says it is about 1 foot tall. So are they both selling the same > thing? Is 'White Sweep' really a form of Triteleia laxa? One picture > I saw of 'Silver Queen' made it look like T. peduncularis with long > pedicels. All of this gets more complicated since sellers often use > photos they find on the Internet to illustrate plants they are > selling rather than photograph their own plants. I recently was > alerted to photos of mine lifted from the wiki for Ebay and other > sellers. It actually was a picture of an entirely different species > than the one they were selling. If they were actually growing that > plant and looked at the picture they were using to illustrate it, > they would have known it was wrong. > > Mary Sue > >> Are T. 'Silver Queen', T. 'White Queen', and T. 'White Sweep' the >> same or are they different. If they are different, then how? > > _______________________________________________ > 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/