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Specific Families and Genera => Amaryllidaceae => Topic started by: PaulFlowers on March 14, 2022, 05:40:03 AM

Title: Cyrtanthus 2022
Post by: PaulFlowers on March 14, 2022, 05:40:03 AM

Lucky enough to have two species of cyrtanthus flowering. C. Flavus (yellow) and the unspellable C. brachyscyphus (Orange).

Title: Re: Cyrtanthus 2022
Post by: MarcR on March 28, 2022, 05:34:27 AM

Hi Paul,

I was recently given 2 seedlings of Cyrtanthus montanus. The bulbs are about 1.5 inches thick through the widest point. Do you have any notion of how close that is to flowering size?

Title: Re: Cyrtanthus 2022
Post by: PaulFlowers on May 03, 2022, 05:45:17 AM

MarcR - they are fully mature! Should flower late summer

Title: Re: Cyrtanthus 2022
Post by: partisangardener on May 03, 2022, 09:48:13 AM

Beautiful your firework flowers.
I only have Cyrtanthus parviflorus which sends up nearly the whole year its firework rockets.
Seeds readily in all other pots if I want it and flowers under nearly all conditions.

Title: Re: Cyrtanthus 2022
Post by: PaulFlowers on May 03, 2022, 05:58:57 PM

Very nice!

Do you know if parviflora is the same as Cyrtanthus brachyscyphus?

Paul

Title: Re: Cyrtanthus 2022
Post by: partisangardener on May 05, 2022, 07:05:23 AM

This is a synonym of this species or vice versa.
I had the seeds from Botanical Garden Bayreuth.

Title: Re: Cyrtanthus 2022
Post by: Karaba on May 05, 2022, 09:07:10 AM

Quote from: partisangardener on May 03, 2022, 09:48:13 AM

Seeds readily in all other pots if I want it and flowers under nearly all conditions.

Funny, mine flower also easily but don't make seeds even if I have three plants grown from seeds. I tried to crosspollinate but it gives nothing yet...

Title: Re: Cyrtanthus 2022
Post by: partisangardener on May 06, 2022, 08:36:37 AM

The same thing happened with me the first years.
Several times crosspollinating with the same flowers worked in the end sometimes. Maybe its the timing.
Since 2020 I just shake the flowering stems several times  and have always fruiting 10 to 30%.

I would send you seeds, but sending goods costs here 4.89 € Minimum rate only documents are less than half the price. These seeds are too delicate and fat to be send in a simple letter.
They make "Muesli" out of it, apart from being illegal.
Greetings from Germany

Title: Re: Cyrtanthus 2022
Post by: PaulFlowers on May 12, 2022, 05:29:19 AM

Cyrtanthus eucallus - the flower is a lovely orange colour. There should have been a few more

Title: Re: Cyrtanthus 2022
Post by: partisangardener on June 05, 2022, 08:06:09 AM

Just shaking the flowers from time to time produces seedstands with me.

Title: Re: Cyrtanthus 2022
Post by: partisangardener on June 05, 2022, 08:08:23 AM

The seeds cling some time to the opening pod. Here are 3 already gone.

Title: Re: Cyrtanthus 2022
Post by: PaulFlowers on June 25, 2022, 05:36:48 AM

Cyrtanthus cream - last flowered in February. The bulbs are small but the flowers massive

Title: Re: Cyrtanthus 2022
Post by: PaulFlowers on June 25, 2022, 05:39:22 AM

Cyrtanthus McKennii - fantastic scent and colour