On 29/03/2017 7:57 PM, Tim Eck wrote: > How cold hardy are they? > > Tim Eck > When a philosopher says something that is true, then it is trivial. When he > says something that is not trivial, then it is false. > Gauss > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: pbs [mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Ceridwen > Lloyd >> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 2:57 AM >> To: Pacific Bulb Society >> Subject: Re: [pbs] What's going on here (Oxalis) >> >> Here they're known as "soursobs" and you can't kill them with an axe. Or >> glyphosate. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On 29 Mar 2017, at 2:44 pm, Kipp McMichael <kimcmich@hotmail.com> >> wrote: >>> Greetings, >>> >>> >>> I assume this is Oxalis pes-caprae (which has been corrupted to >>> "compress"?) >>> >>> >>> At any rate, this oxalis produces resting tubers that look like acorns > (enough >> that jays and other critters spread them in the landscape). The plant you >> uprooted was a sprout of the corm you pulled out - the corm being the >> product of growth in a prior season. The corm sprouts a root-like shoot > that >> eventually grows to the surface *and* puts down roots. New cormlets form >> along the whole root/stem and are usually stripped-off by uprooting - a >> feature which makes this oxalis invasive and difficult to eradicate. >>> >>> Since the corms are vegetative offsets the double bloom would > presumably >> be a trait it inherited. The invasive O. pes caprae in California does not > set >> seed - it is spread via the cormlets. I have sifted hundreds from soils > all over >> the Bay Area where it is a terrible invasive weed... though it is also > quite >> gorgeous this time of year, too. >>> >>> -|<ipp >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ________________________________ >>> From: pbs <pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org> on behalf of David Pilling >>> <david@davidpilling.com> >>> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 4:29 PM >>> To: Pacific Bulb Society >>> Subject: [pbs] What's going on here (Oxalis) >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Jim Waddick asked me to post the following question and pictures (on >>> the wiki page). >>> >>> " >>> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… >>> Pacific Bulb Society | Things we are talking about on the >>> ...<http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…> >>> http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/ >>> 18th February 2017 I received this unlabeled plant/these plants recently > at a >> garden exchange. It looks like Albuca shawii, and it It produced a lot of > new >> leaves ... >>> >>> >>> >>> 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/ > Hi ,we grew Oxalis pes-caprae double form in Deloraine,Tasmania and temps got down to minus 4C quite often , rarely minus 6C