specialized bulb groups

specialized bulb groups
Vlad Hempel via pbs (Tue, 01 Dec 2020 22:24:00 PST)

I subscribe to what you have written, Lee.

Z. rojo is more popular in the Spanish speaking groups because it seems to
be a native species from Central America, including Mexico. I happen to
grow it, along with its sibling Z. estrella rojo. Both are very fertile and
vigorous.

The most content is on Hippeastrum. Obviously there are a lot of people who
love this plant, but in a lot of these groups I see comments such as
„Beautiful“ and „Thank you“. The more valuable one is about species only,
called Planet Botanical Hippeastrum.

There are also a few groups as „rare bulbs“ or „alpine bulbs“ or societies,
which I personally find more useful and not to forget to mention those
groups as „bulbs in habitat“, where various bulbs enthusiasts like us post
pictures from their excursions in nature.

Cheers,
Vlad

On Wed 2. Dec 2020 at 00:08 Lee Poulsen via pbs <
pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote:

Sometimes there are too many specialized bulb groups on Facebook, and
other times there are none. Take Hippeastrum for example. There are a lot
of groups for this genus, some overlapping, with at least a couple that
only allow discussion of species, while others include any Hippeastrum at
all. Then there are amaryllid groups and South American bulb species, as
well as specific amaryllid family groups. There is a Tigridia and related
genera group but only in Spanish. There are multiple Worsleya groups. There
are also multiple Zephyranthes/Habranthus groups in English and in Spanish.
And you find people posting the same, marvelous photographs of rarer
species to 3 or 4 groups simultaneously. I find it difficult to keep up.
And the comments get split across related groups for the same photographs.
On the other hand, sometimes you only see certain amazing species on just
one of the multiple-group genus groups. For example, there is a blood-red
Zephyranthes species (?) in Mexico that is beautiful, but I never see much
detail discussed about it, and only in Spanish.

It’s both a blessing and curse.

--Lee Poulsen
Pasadena, California, USA - USDA Zone 10a
Latitude 34°N, Altitude 1150 ft/350 m

On Dec 1, 2020, at 1:05 PM, Diane via pbs <

pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote:

We have such a broad range of interests in PBS that I am surprised at

how specialized some groups can be.

There are societies for bulbs that have a lot of species, like Iris and

Lilium.

I’ve just discovered a Facebook group called Paramongaia Lovers. It has

508 members, but I am not a member so can’t check out any messages.

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