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From Favorite Turquoise Bulbs on Thursday 2nd of April 2026 06:26:25 PM PDT
Ixia viridiflora-- Everyone just stops and stares at this Ixia when it is in bloom.
From Asterostigma on Wednesday 1st of April 2026 06:17:05 PM PDT
Asterostigma tweedianum Schott was photographed by Tarcísio Eduardo Raduenz near Blumenau, Brazil.
From Mandragora on Tuesday 31st of March 2026 05:09:11 PM PDT
Mandragora officinarum L. is native to Southern Europe and the Mediterranean. Mandrake begins its vegetative cycle in the midwinter, flowers in the spring, fruits, and goes quickly dormant in the summer. The leaves are light green looking somewhat like a demented Swiss chard, flowers mauve to yellowish, with six pointed petals. Plant prefers alkaline, deep, sandy, dry soils in the part-shade. Height range: 30-60 cm. Photo of fruiting plant, courtesy of Richard A Cech. The second picture shows a plant Johannes-Ulrich Urban encountered on a guided tour through coastal wetland in Portugal, January 2022, describing them as "lush vigorous clumps with crinkled foliage and surprisingly large blue flowers".
From Gloxinella on Monday 30th of March 2026 06:30:05 PM PDT
Gloxinella lindeniana (Regel) Roalson & Boggan, syns. Gloxinia lindeniana, Kohleria lindeniana, Isoloma lindenianum, and Tydaea lindeniana Regel is a tropical rhizomatous South American plant. It is grown as much for its beautiful soft green and brown leaves with lighter greenish white veins, as for the bell shaped purple to lavender and white flowers. Although it is a compact plant, as it grows it sends out stringy rhizomes that produce a new shoot so a pot can soon be filled to overflowing. It is usually grown as an indoor plant and will eventually go dormant. The new rhizomes can be shared with others. Height range: 30-60 cm. Photos below were taken by Mary Sue Ittner of such a plant grown from rhizomes shared by Dennis Kramb in the Pacific Bulb Society BX. The first photo was taken February 2014. The other photos were taken in June 2014 and in that short time it has expanded. The last photo shows the rhizomes on a 1 cm grid.
From Fuchsia on Sunday 29th of March 2026 05:40:20 PM PDT
Fuchsia fulgens DC. is a species native to the central highlands of Mexico. It has been reported from the states of Mexico, Michoacan and Jalisco in the Pacific watershed at elevations between 1500-2000 meters growing in oak forests. It commonly grows as a lithophyte with the tuberous roots wrapping around rocks or as an epiphyte growing among ferns and mosses on the trunks of trees. The roots tend to be branched, rather long and protected with a scarious covering. The plants are commonly seen in the first major fork of a tree about 1-2 meters off the ground. The plant is deciduous and new growth commences in April right before the rainy season begins. Plants can be seen in flower in their native habitat in May.
The first picture is of the tuberous root system of a wild-collected plant. The plant is cultivated as an epiphyte by being tied to a Prunus armeniaca tree. The second picture is of a plant flowering in the wild taken in early July in-situ in Mexico State. Height range: 2-5 ft. Photos by Dennis Szeszko.
From Chamaescilla on Saturday 28th of March 2026 06:49:04 PM PDT
Chamaescilla corymbosa (R.Br.) F.Muell. ex Benth. is found in damp sandy areas or rock in South Australia, Western Australia, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania in a variety of habitats: forest, woodland, heath. This species is 10 to 15 cm high. The bright blue star-like flowers have six tepals 8 to 10 mm long and grow on branched stems. They only last a day. Leaves are bluish green, arranged in a flat rosette in exposed places, but longer and erect in shaded conditions. There are three accepted varieties. Photos below were taken by Bob Rutemoeller and Mary Sue Ittner in southwestern Australia in September 2007. We believe it was this species, but did not attempt to break the plants any further. Plants were seen in a wet rock outcrop area along with orchids, in the forest, and in a wet area near a river where they were growing with spring annuals.
From XHippeastrelia on Friday 27th of March 2026 05:03:12 PM PDT
×Hippeastrelia unnamed hybrids. The first photo was taken by Mary Sue Ittner. This plant flowered in late May 2004 from seed started November 1998. The seed came from Bill Dijk who said it was a cross between a dwarf red unnamed Hippeastrum hybrid and Sprekelia formosissima. It did not bloom again until 2010 and bloomed again in 2011. The remaining photos are by Pamela Slate showing a plant blooming in central Arizona in May 2011 and the dehiscing seed capsule. The time between two photos was exactly one month; at its widest point the seed capsule measures 4 cm; the plants are self fertile.
From South African Oxalis Eight on Thursday 26th of March 2026 05:56:12 PM PDT
Oxalis palmifrons Salter is a winter growing species from the Western Karoo of South Africa with interesting leaves, growing about 8 cm high. Width can slowly extend to 40-60 cm, in very mature plants. This one is difficult to get to bloom in cultivation. It may need a deep pot. Photo 1 was taken by Sheila Burrow and photos 2-3 by Bill Dijk, including one with a good display of flowers. Photo 4 taken by Nhu Nguyen shows a closeup of the leaf.
Photos below were taken by Mary Sue Ittner. The first two photos were taken September 2006 in the Roggeveld of the leaves. The flower in the first photo is Romulea subfistulosa. The other photos are of plants in cultivation showing leaves, bud, flowers and the bulbs on a 1 cm grid. After years without seeing flowers now with larger bulbs in deep pots plants are flowering regularly.
From Doryanthes on Wednesday 25th of March 2026 05:04:58 PM PDT
Doryanthes excelsa Corrêa, known as the Gymea Lily, is a showy species found in light forest or open areas in New South Wales. It occurs in coastal sandstone outcrops along the sandstone plateaus within the Sydney region. It has a shortened rhizome and closely packed evergreen bulbs that arise from the fleshy rootstock and give rise to additional plants clustered around the mother plant. Inflorescences from D. excelsa are remarkable in that they can reach up to 8 metres in height in a mature plant and can have between one to two hundred red and very fleshy, lily like flowers up to 23 cm across on a panicle of umbels that open over a couple of months. Within the central well formed by the tepals is a sweet viscous, jelly-like fluid with which it attracts honey eaters and ensures fertilisation. Much of the above information supplied by Jim Lykos.
Photos #1-4 below were taken by Peter Thomson. The largest one with the open flower is about 4 meters high (13 feet). You can see the size of the flower by the Noisy Miner (Manorina melanocephala), which is about the size of a Thrush. Photo #5 from Jim Lykos is of a first flowered short stemmed plant from Sydney's Royal Botanical Garden site. Photo #6 was contributed by the UC Botanical Garden.
From Blandfordia on Tuesday 24th of March 2026 05:18:45 PM PDT
Blandfordia grandiflora R.Br. from Queensland and New South Wales has tubular red or orange-red waxy flowers with yellow tips, growing to about 60 cm. It prefers moist to wet sandy soils with dappled shade or part sun. Photo 1 from Lyn Edwards of a pale colored form. Photo 2 of seed by David Pilling. Photo 3 from Norton Cuba taken in the National Botanical Garden of Canberra.
