[pbs] Sun break photos

Jim McKenney jimmckenney at starpower.net
Mon Mar 1 16:16:16 EST 2004


Jane McGary wrote:

>The story of it is on the Photographs and Information page for Sternbergia. 
>In short, it has yellow flowers in fall and utterly S. candida-like foliage 
>in spring, and it was part of a batch of bulbs bought by Panayoti Kelaidis 
>in the early 1990s, which apparently had been wild-dug because there were 
>S. candida bulbs among them. Any ideas?

I'm chiming in for Sternbergia fischeriana, too. For me, this was a late
winter bloomer, not a fall bloomer. The foliage on the plant I had years
ago was the same color and even more upright and slightly twisted. 

Jim McKenney
jimmckenney at starpower.net
Montgomery County, Maryland, zone 7, where the temperature has reached 70
degrees F and all the coldframes are propped open. 







At 01:51 PM 2/29/2004 -0800, you wrote:
>Today I hurried out during a sun break (a weather term that seems to be 
>indigenous to the Pacific Northwest) and photographed a whole lot of bulbs, 
>then posted them on the wiki. I have some questions about two of them.
>
>First, here is another mystery Narcissus:
>http://www.ibiblio.org/pbs/pbswiki/files/Narcissus_albidus_occidentalis.jpg
>
>There is a subsp. albidus of N. romieuxii, but I don't find occidentalis 
>among the epithets of any member of the Bulbocodium section in the 
>literature I have. Any ideas, Harold and Kathy?
>
>Second, here is a really serious mystery Sternbergia:
>http://www.ibiblio.org/pbs/pbswiki/files/Sternbergia_sp._foliage.jpg
>
>The story of it is on the Photographs and Information page for Sternbergia. 
>In short, it has yellow flowers in fall and utterly S. candida-like foliage 
>in spring, and it was part of a batch of bulbs bought by Panayoti Kelaidis 
>in the early 1990s, which apparently had been wild-dug because there were 
>S. candida bulbs among them. Any ideas?
>
>The other items include:
>http://www.ibiblio.org/pbs/pbswiki/files/Tulipa_orithyoides.jpg
>http://www.ibiblio.org/pbs/pbswiki/files/Iris_kuschakewiczii.jpg
>http://www.ibiblio.org/pbs/pbswiki/files/Narcissus_bulbocodium_nivalis.jpg
>http://www.ibiblio.org/pbs/pbswiki/files/Muscari_chalusicum.jpg
>http://www.ibiblio.org/pbs/pbswiki/files/Crocus_angustifolius_Bronze.jpg
>http://www.ibiblio.org/pbs/pbswiki/files/Fritillaria_carica_serpenticola.jpg
>http://www.ibiblio.org/pbs/pbswiki/files/Fritillaria_euboica.jpg
>http://www.ibiblio.org/pbs/pbswiki/files/Gagea_fibrosa.jpg
>http://www.ibiblio.org/pbs/pbswiki/files/Corydalis_henrikii.jpg
>
>I've requested a page be set up for Corydalis, which I'm sure many of us 
>will be photographing in the coming weeks.
>
>Jane McGary
>Northwestern Oregon, USA
>
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