Yeah, I have found similar FB groups for different gesneriads. There's a Brazilian group for Sinningias, and a Vietnamese group for Aeschynanthus. I can't read most of the posts but the photographs are outstanding. Dennis in Cincinnati On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 2:01 AM, Garak <garak@code-garak.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm actually a bit sad to hear that there is an active tigridia group on > FB - another hefty blow to my resistance against the evil kraken. All I can > hope is that some things will leak here or elsewhere in the free web :-( > > But I totally agree that there should be more books like this > Amaryllidaceae book - the perfect blend between classic botanical > descriptions and cultivation hints. definitely a must have if one is even > remotely interested in SA's amaryllids. All I'd need now is a pocket book > or Ebook version to read on the train to work. > > Am 13.09.2017 um 12:27 schrieb Lee Poulsen: > >> Also, via Facebook, there are starting to be serious and growing groups >> of native Latin Americans pursuing certain genera/families of bulbous >> species, collecting and sharing seeds and trying to increase awareness of >> the rarer species of Latin America, all in Spanish for a change. The >> Tigridia group especially seems to be flourishing—and it’s almost becoming >> a Latin American Irids group more than just the Tigridia cultivars and >> species group it started out as. I would love to ask some of them who are >> posting photos of things I’ve never seen before to possibly allow their >> photos to be added to the PBS wiki/encyclopedia. (Like I recently saw >> photos of a pure yellow Leontochir (Alstroemeria) ovallei taken in the >> current spectacular flowering of the Atacama Desert this year.) >> > > -- > Martin > ---------------------------------------------- > Southern Germany > Likely zone 7a > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…