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Author Topic: Winter Narcissus - to early 2012  (Read 52454 times)

Gerry Webster

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Re: Winter Narcissus - to early 2012
« Reply #405 on: March 16, 2012, 11:10:14 PM »
Narcissus bulbocodium  

From a collection by Bob & Rannveig Wallis (RRW8832); Tahanout, High Atlas, Morocco.

I posted these plants on 8th March (post 337) when they were still partially in bud. I’m posting them again now that all the flowers are fully expanded. They are the most impressive bulbocodiums I grow.
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Re: Winter Narcissus - to early 2012
« Reply #406 on: March 17, 2012, 02:58:27 AM »
Wince Anne? Weep more like. Asturiensis is such perfection that to treat it like that is evil! Tragic anyway.

I'm doing a lot of weeping lately. Spending the rest of today quietly crying to myself having listened to yet another debacle performed to perfection by the NZ cricket team.
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Anthony Darby

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Re: Winter Narcissus - to early 2012
« Reply #407 on: March 17, 2012, 08:28:02 AM »
Ah well, at least we'll have one of our basses back for choral evensong tomorrow, unless he spends the extra days on the golf course? ::)
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Re: Winter Narcissus - to early 2012
« Reply #408 on: March 17, 2012, 08:39:09 AM »
That's a lovely one Gerry.  I struggle to get bulbocodiums to flower reliably, so hope that seed-grown plants will perform better under my conditions.
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Re: Winter Narcissus - to early 2012
« Reply #409 on: March 17, 2012, 04:45:43 PM »
Really nice Gerry, I would like to grow it!!
Here is N. willkommii, I suppose it is currently called with other names, as the diferences between the related species are very little.

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Re: Winter Narcissus - to early 2012
« Reply #410 on: March 17, 2012, 05:18:55 PM »
Really nice Gerry, I would like to grow it!!
Here is N. willkommii, I suppose it is currently called with other names, as the diferences between the related species are very little.
I like it too Rafa. If I get any seed I'll send you some.
N. willkommii is very attractive.
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Re: Winter Narcissus - to early 2012
« Reply #411 on: March 18, 2012, 01:06:56 PM »
One from Anne's List-Narcissus 'Kenellis'

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Re: Winter Narcissus - to early 2012
« Reply #412 on: March 18, 2012, 05:48:17 PM »
My first to flower here is Narcissus jacetanus. It had only been open a day when a bumblebee decided to make lufe easier and cut hole through the trumpet  >:(
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Re: Winter Narcissus - to early 2012
« Reply #413 on: March 18, 2012, 06:35:04 PM »
I don't know how unusual this is but my Narcissus romieuxii 'Julia Jane' has developed a bulbil at the base of the seed pod.

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Re: Winter Narcissus - to early 2012
« Reply #414 on: March 18, 2012, 06:40:08 PM »
That's a new one on me Arnold.
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Re: Winter Narcissus - to early 2012
« Reply #415 on: March 18, 2012, 09:13:44 PM »
Me too, very weird.
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Re: Winter Narcissus - to early 2012
« Reply #416 on: March 18, 2012, 09:25:29 PM »
That's very interesting Arnold. I've neither seen nor read about this in Narcissus. Once, several years ago, I observed something similar (an axillary bulbil) on a fritillary (Liliaceae) but this is, perhaps, not so surprising since several lilies routinely behave in this way. It will be interesting to see how it develops when planted - my fritillary bulbil was eaten by something.  
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Re: Winter Narcissus - to early 2012
« Reply #417 on: March 18, 2012, 10:37:43 PM »
And it should be true to name Arnold. :)

Who is the bass Anthony? It would by nice to have something good to think about any of the cricketers right now.
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Re: Winter Narcissus - to early 2012
« Reply #418 on: March 18, 2012, 11:34:42 PM »
His name's Michael, and he didn't show. We still had four basses, so no problem. Having to learn "new" harmonies and words to some hymns. I thought Church Hymnary 4 was bad for rewriting poetry! :(
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Re: Winter Narcissus - to early 2012
« Reply #419 on: March 19, 2012, 04:19:03 AM »
Wow, quite unusual for Amaryllidaceae.

I saw another plant in Amaryllidaceae the other day doing the same thing, it appeared to be a Hippeastrum species.  The botanist that provided the picture had never seen anything like it either?

How strange..

 


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