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Specific Families and Genera => Amaryllidaceae => Topic started by: Alessandro.marinello on July 16, 2009, 09:02:27 PM

Title: Nerine krigei
Post by: Alessandro.marinello on July 16, 2009, 09:02:27 PM

Today in flower :)

Title: Re: Nerine krigei
Post by: Paddy Tobin on July 16, 2009, 09:05:44 PM

Alessandro,

Looking very good and I am delighted to see that this one is not growing in your bathtub with the crinum.

Paddy

Title: Re: Nerine krigei
Post by: johnw on July 16, 2009, 10:55:47 PM

Alessandro

Boy that's an early Nerine species! And so vigorous and leafy.

johnw

Title: Re: Nerine krigei
Post by: Ragged Robin on July 16, 2009, 11:13:02 PM

Lovely colour dusky pink with those expresso anthers, Alessandro  ;)

Title: Re: Nerine krigei
Post by: Alessandro.marinello on July 19, 2009, 05:11:38 PM

Thanks
Paddy,Johnw and Ragged

Title: Re: Nerine krigei
Post by: Paul T on July 19, 2009, 10:39:02 PM

Alessandro,

A species I have grown for years, but never flowered as yet.  Well done.  I love the corkscrew foliage (I can just see one leaf coming in from the bottom left corner.  How tall does the flowers stem get, and long are the leaves?  It looks like the flowers are fairly substantial?  Nerine species are so variable, so I had no idea how big the flowers might be, although the leaves are large enough that I thought they could be up closer to bowdenii size or something?  Hopefully mine will flower for me one day.  Thanks so much for showing us the flower.

Title: Re: Nerine krigei
Post by: Alessandro.marinello on July 28, 2009, 10:34:07 PM

Nerine gracilis

Title: Re: Nerine krigei
Post by: Ragged Robin on July 28, 2009, 11:04:32 PM

Never seen such a graceful little Nerine in a lovely lush backdrop of green leaves, Alessandro - where is its native habitat?

Title: Re: Nerine krigei
Post by: Alessandro.marinello on July 28, 2009, 11:21:52 PM

Ragged
Is native to Mpumalanga-South Africa
the leaves belong to a house neighbor ;D

Title: Re: Nerine krigei
Post by: Alessandro.marinello on August 13, 2009, 10:06:32 PM

new to bloom , Nerine filifolia and  Nerine rehmannii

Title: Re: Nerine krigei
Post by: Paul T on August 14, 2009, 01:58:04 AM

Alessandro,

Never heard of rehmanii in Nerine before (have seen the name in other genus though).  Looks like the flower might be similar in size to masoniorum?  And by the looks of it almost white?

Title: Re: Nerine krigei
Post by: Alessandro.marinello on August 14, 2009, 05:51:43 PM

Paul
the flower is very small  cm  1, risks not to be seen

Title: Re: Nerine krigei
Post by: Paul T on August 15, 2009, 12:27:33 AM

Very similar to masoniorum then (except that is pink, where as yours is closer to white by the look of it).  I must admit that masoniorum is one of my favourite species as the flowers are tiny but absolutely perfectly formed (with wonderfully rippled edges).  It and angulata are probably my two favourite Nerine species, but that does depend a lot on what is in flower at the time.  ;D

Title: Re: Nerine krigei
Post by: Alessandro.marinello on August 15, 2009, 11:24:15 PM

Paul
you meant these? ;D

Title: Re: Nerine krigei
Post by: Paul T on August 15, 2009, 11:37:37 PM

That's the one.  Aren't they just the cutest nerines?  How similar are the two species (as you have them both there to compare)?  You keep coming up with species I've not even heard of before.  ::)  This is definitely a good thing.  ;D

Title: Re: Nerine krigei
Post by: Alessandro.marinello on August 16, 2009, 12:02:39 AM

Paul
me is difficult to explain, but the two species has remarkable differences: in the stem, flower and leaves

Title: Re: Nerine krigei
Post by: Paul T on August 16, 2009, 12:06:09 AM

Thanks Alessandro.

Title: Re: Nerine krigei
Post by: Alessandro.marinello on August 18, 2009, 09:08:21 PM

An other photo of Nerine filifolia

Title: Re: Nerine krigei
Post by: Paul T on August 19, 2009, 10:56:12 PM

Alessandro,

Are your filifolia pale pink?  The first photo I thought may have just been light conditions, but your second looks even paler, although that could just be camera taking the colour differently.  I've never seen pale filifolia before, here they're always a dark pink (or every one I have come across, anyway).  I'll try to find a pic for comparison.

Title: Re: Nerine krigei
Post by: Alessandro.marinello on August 19, 2009, 11:30:50 PM

Paul
My Nerine is not anemic ;D