[pbs] Tigridia ehrenbergii
Dennis Kramb
dkramb at badbear.com
Sun Oct 1 11:43:49 EDT 2006
At 12:33 PM 9/17/2006, you wrote:
>Thanks to Rafa's friend, Verónica Chavez, we have a photo of this species
>added to our wiki Tigridia page. Rafa has supplied some information about
>this species which I have added to the page.
>
>http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php?pagename=Tigridia
Nobody else reacted to this message, so I will. :-)
I LOVE THIS GENUS !! What a great little
species, this T. ehrenbergii is. I had never heard of it before.
A couple years ago I tried to order an old, rare
book through Amazon, called The Tribe Tigridaceae
of Mexico, or something like that. I think it
was written 50~100 years ago, and it sounded like a neat book.
Anyway, my fascination with Tigridia, stems from
my love of Iris. (haha, "stems"...) If I grow
them close enough to the house, Trigridia pavonia
are winter-hardy up here in Ohio. This year I'm trying to grow some from seed.
I also grow a couple types of Alophia... a genus
closely related to Tigridia. At the moment I
have this picture set as my desktop wallpaper background.
http://www.badbear.com/dkramb/18-Alophia%20veracruzana.JPG
Absolutely gorgeous, albeit ephemeral, flower!
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