What's going on here (Oxalis)
samuel (Tue, 28 Mar 2017 21:19:05 PDT)

On 29/03/2017 9:29 AM, David Pilling wrote:

Hi,

Jim Waddick asked me to post the following question and pictures (on
the wiki page).

"
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

Here's a plant of Oxalis compress with large double flowers, but what
is going on here.? The flowers are part of a good size clump of
leaves, but then there is a near leafless stem going down almost a
foot to end in a tiny corm barely under the soil. Unfortunately a
greenhouse weed.

Notice that the clump of foliage is NOT resting on the ground and has
no hint of roots. Also note the picture of the tiny tuber. The tuber
is attached to the main stem and there is a small bud just starting to
develop where the tuber meets the stem. A lot of odd structures here.
"

Apparently the 3 billion users of FaceBook have failed to solve the
mystery. Time to ask the experts.

Short URL:

https://goo.gl/kYocds/

Hi , could this actually be a double flowered form of O.pes-caprae ,
Oxalis compressa has leaf stems that are distinctly flattened on two sides.

I am growing the single forms of O.pes-caprae and O.compressa as well as
the double form of O.pes-caprae here in Queensland.