[pbs] Mystery Amaryllid
Susan Hayek
susanann at sbcglobal.net
Wed Oct 18 21:15:27 EDT 2006
>Dear members -- I have a pot labelled Cyrtanthus brachyscyphus,
>which produced a respctable umble of cuved red trumpets last year.
>this year, however, the pot (I imagine this is a contaminant, and
>not the original Cyrtanthus, but though it's a contaminant, it's not
>to be despised) produced a uniflorous scape bearing a large
>(sub?)sessile regular funnel-shaped yellow blossom. The flower
>closes every evening, and reopens in the morning. I'm sure my
>Cyrtanthus is still in the pot, as there are two dissimilar leaf
>sets. One leaf type is hollow, tubular, almost like an Allium, but
>with a grove along the upper surface. The other is flat, with a
>midrib and two distinct faces. I am enclosing 2 hasty photos of
>the unknown amaryllid. Can anyone identify it?
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s. for the administrators
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susan hayek, North Coast of CA, USA, zone 9b, Sunset zone 17.
15 miles south of Eureka, CA, overlooking the Eel River, with a peek
of the ocean.
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