2 Watsonias for confirmation
Mary Sue Ittner (Mon, 09 Apr 2018 10:39:45 PDT)
In the Color Encyclopedia and I think on the wiki as well W. humilis is
15 to 40 cm and W. laccata 30 to 40 cm tall. Besides often being shorter
W. humilis doesn't usually have as many flowers per spike. If you look
at the key in that book, one of the earlier separators is
flower tube short or long but gradually flaring above - eventually gets
to W. laccata
bracts for that species are 10 to 20 mm, clasping the stem
flower tube long, slender below but widening abruptly into a broadly
cylindrical upper part - eventually gets to W. humilis. The bracts are
an important way to identify them. W humilis - bracts 20 to 30 mm long
overlapping and keeled in the midline
John Manning once wrote that unless you control for pollination,
resultant seed will turn out to produce a hybrid which makes
identification to a species level when looking at plants a challenge.
Mary Sue
On 4/9/2018 9:04 AM, Chad Schroter wrote:
The other is from seed received as W. humilis, but I am thinking should be W. laccata. They are just over 12" tall, though this is the first year for bloom from 4" pots so they could be stunted.
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