[pbs] Bulbils on the roots?
Diana Chapman
rarebulbs at suddenlink.net
Sat Aug 25 10:49:51 EDT 2007
I don't think S. hughii has a muddy blue form. The ones I have are a
brilliant blue. The differences between S. hughii and S. peruviana are as
follows: In S. hughii the leaves are much broader, the bracts below each
floret are much longer and are tinted a bronze color. The bronze color also
tints the stems. I used to grow both, and was able to compare side by side,
and you could see the differences. There are pictures of S. hughii on my
web site, www.telosrarebulbs.com, and I tried to photgraph them to show the
bracts.
Diana
Telos Rare Bulbs
>
>
> Once, maybe twice, I have grown "Scilla peruviana" from seed exchange
> donations, at least one was labelled "Alba", but when it eventually
> flowered
> turned out to be a dull, muddy, pale grey blue. Could this be "hughii"?
> The
> closest in colouring from memory, is that of Scilla dimartinoi on the pbs
> wiki, though I can't remember if the flower scape differed at all from my
> other S. peruviana. The only trouble is yesterday I labelled another pot,
> with no root bulbils, as "pale form", which was what I originally called
> it
> to differentiate it for my own purposes, so maybe this was not this form
> but
> another that has lost its label over the eons. Now I will have to flower
> them both to see if they are different flower forms, and that may take
> more
> than a year from the smallish sized bulbs. (only 1 has the root bulbils)
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