Hippeastrum ex Taipas
David Pilling (Sun, 18 Aug 2019 06:58:35 PDT)

Hi,

The following was sent by James Shields

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This little plant has been in my collection for 10 years now, but blooms
only sparsely. This cute mini Hippeastrum is from Taipas in Brazil. It
still lacks a scientific name, but Mauro Peixoto and his collaborators
are working on giving it one. So far. most who grow it are calling it
simply
Hippeastrum "Taipas." I think its proper designation at this point is
Hippeastrum sp. nov. ex Taipas. Mauro offered seeds of this species two
or three times. I got the seeds for this plant in 2008.

I had a bounteous bloom of Taipas seedlings a few years back and
distributed seeds from that year, but have not gotten seeds from them
since. I will try again this year, as another plant of Taipas has a
scape starting to grow. I am storing some of its pollen just in case.
Mauro
has not offered seeds of Taipas for several years now.

The peduncle is about 42 cm high on this greenhouse-grown specimen, the
pedicel is 30 to 35 mm long, and the diameter across the face of
flowers, petal tips to petal tips, is 70 mm (2.8 inches). Regis
Bastian, in Brazil, thinks this species is probably related to the new
Hippeastrum species, H. ramboi, whose naming he participated in. These
are exciting time in genus Hippeastrum!

James Shields jshields46074@gmail.com
P.O. Box 92
Westfield, IN 46074
U.S.A.

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David Pilling
http://www.davidpilling.com/
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