[pbs] Sun break photos
Jim McKenney
jimmckenney at starpower.net
Mon Mar 1 16:27:21 EST 2004
I've learned that there is nothing like clicking on "send" to momentarily
enhance my editorial abilities.
No sooner had I sent the last message about Jane's mystery Sternbergia than
I noticed that Mark uses the spelling fischerana.
Is this a repeat of the Tulipa fosteriana/Tulipa fosterana thing?
Jim McKenney
jimmckenney at starpower.net
Montgomery County, Maryland 20852 where all underutilized "i's" are on the
emerging sprouts
At 04:16 PM 3/1/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>Jane McGary wrote:
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>>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?
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>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.
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>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.
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>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
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>>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?
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>>Second, here is a really serious mystery Sternbergia:
>>http://www.ibiblio.org/pbs/pbswiki/files/Sternbergia_sp._foliage.jpg
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>>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
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>>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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