Oxalis storage organs
Mary Sue Ittner (Thu, 13 Nov 2014 08:58:14 PST)

Oxalis storage organs are so different in size as well as form. I
find it useful to know what they look like when I am repotting so I
decided to make a wiki page and gather all the photos we had of them.
Nhu is correct that the bulb of Oxalis hirta 'Gothenburg' is
gigantic. It also doesn't increase very much like some of the other
Oxalis. On the other hand Oxalis glabra and Oxalis pusilla are really
tiny. Having a grid or ruler in the photos makes them easier to
compare. Sometimes I added more than one photo of the bulbs of the
same species to illustrate that different forms can be different in
size and in shape a bit too. That is certainly true of forms of
Oxalis purpurea, Oxalis flava, Oxalis hirta.
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

If anyone has photos of the storage organs of species we have on the
wiki already but are missing photos of the storage organs, send them
to me and I'll add them.

Oxalis bowiei also has big pink flowers and in a good year like this
one is very dazzling.

Mary Sue