pbs Digest, Vol 7, Issue 14

A well equipped dutch grower tried a few years ago to set up saffron
cultures in Afganistan. He failed, mainly because growing opium was much
more profitable!
Ben Zonneveld

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Today's Topics:

1. Re: Saffron, Possibly Replacing Opium in Afghanistan
(Russell Stafford, Odyssey Plants)
2. Re: Pacific Bulb Society BX 425 (Cody H)
3. Re: Pacific Bulb Society BX 425 (Cody H)
4. Re: Amaryllidaceae Book! (Lee Poulsen) (Nhu Nguyen)

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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 08:51:59 -0400
From: "Russell Stafford, Odyssey Plants" <russell@odysseybulbs.com>
To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>
Subject: Re: [pbs] Saffron, Possibly Replacing Opium in Afghanistan
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While it's true that mass-market saffron is dominated by one clone,
numerous genotypes and phenotypes occur in cultivation. Some are
very floriferous. No genetic engineering necessarily required!

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/…

Russell

At 07:30 AM 9/13/2017, you wrote:

On 13/09/2017 03:39, Judy Glattstein wrote:

Nice BBC article about saffron growing / selling in Afghanistan. And

Iran.

Here in the North West of England my saffron crocus are just
appearing. I doubt they will flower.

Stories about commercial saffron growing come round every year. The
other tale is that it is a single cultivated clone which no one
knows the origin of.

Maybe the market is not big enough for someone to genetically
engineer a plant that grows easily and produces lots of saffron.
David Pilling
http://www.davidpilling.com/
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Russell Stafford
Odyssey Bulbs
PO Box 382
South Lancaster, MA 01561
508-335-8106
russell@odysseybulbs.com
http://www.odysseybulbs.com/
http://www.facebook.com/odysseybulbs/

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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 16:14:37 +0000
From: Cody H <plantboy@gmail.com>
To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>
Subject: Re: [pbs] Pacific Bulb Society BX 425
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Hi Dell,

Could I get the following:

1. Moraea tripetala
4. Nerine masonorum
8. Oxalis caprina, lilac
9. Oxalis depressa, MV 4871
10. Oxalis flava, yellow
11. Oxalis imbricata
12. Oxalis namaquana, yellow
13. Oxalis sp.?, yellow, ex BX 313
16. Strumaria tenella
17. Tristagma 'Rolf Fiedler'
18. Veltheimia bracteata
19. Zephyranthes candida
20. Zephyranthes citrina
21. Zephyranthes minima
22. Zephyranthes 'Prairie Sunset'
23. Zephyranthes primulina
24. Zephyranthes reginae
25. Zephyranthes smallii
26. Zephyranthes 'Tenexio Apricot'
27. Zephyranthes grandiflora (Z. minuta)

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Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 16:15:45 +0000
From: Cody H <plantboy@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [pbs] Pacific Bulb Society BX 425
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Whoops! Too quick on the draw there, sorry for the spam everyone.
On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 9:14 AM Cody H <plantboy@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Dell,

Could I get the following:

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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 08:30:47 -1000
From: Nhu Nguyen <xerantheum@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [pbs] Amaryllidaceae Book! (Lee Poulsen)
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Hi Lee,

If you get permission and gather these photos, just drop them into a cloud
storage space or email them to me and I can put them on the Wiki. We'd need
information about locality or who grew them of course.

Nhu

On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 12:27 AM, Lee Poulsen <wpoulsen@pacbell.net>
wrote:

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.)

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