Thanks for the info. How long from seed to bloom? Will you be offering seeds or offsets next year? Karl Church On Sep 17, 2013 11:15 AM, "Kipp McMichael" <kimcmich@hotmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > I was busy this weekend and did not see the BX until it was over. > > The Boophone seeds from are not from Australia but named after Aus in > Namibia. Several of you may be familar with the story from prior exchanges, > but for those who aren't: > > Around 9 years ago, specimen bulbs of "Boophone sp Aus" were offered by > Guy Wrinkle and other rare bulb purveyors. As far as I can ascertain (the > two prinicipals now being sadly departed), these bulbs ultimately > originated with Charles Craib. These original specimens were said to be > from Aus, Namibia. > > Around 6 years ago, rareplants.co.uk began offering bulbs listed as > juvenile Boophone sp Aus. The description, however, was as follows: "A new > and as yet un-named species or form, once known only from near Aus in > Namibia, but also discovered in a small region of southern S. Africa." > > I have confirmed that rareplants received these bulbs from Charles > Craib. Barring confusion on rareplants part, I tend to trust Charles > Craib's identification - though I do acknowledge a disjunct distribution in > Aus and "southern South Africa" would be unusual. > > I bought 3 of those bulbs and the seed offered in BX 346 are from these > 3 plants which all bloomed this year. > > I also have 3 Boophone sp bulbs offered by Charles Craib/Simply > Indigenous as "eastern Cape evergreen form" which some have speculated may > be the same as the southern South African bulbs purported to be sp Aus. The > "evergreen" bulbs do bloom about the same time as the sp. Aus bulbs (and > with a similar pink color), but the foliage of the evergreen sp is greener > and more pliant - even when they were grown in the same positions. The sp > Aus bulbs have tighter fans of blue leaves. I highlight the differences > here, but this is all within the context of bulbs from a genus whose > species are very similar. > > So there is the long story about these Boophone "sp. Aus" seeds. > > -|<ipp > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >