Calostemma purpureum

[arillady]

Thanks Paul - up until recently it only featured as a roadside flowering that I would think isn't that lovely.
I must source the "Its Blue with five petals" - I have the Kangaroo Island one but not the Mt Lofty ranges one. It is a book "identifying wildflowers eaasily by colour and shape" - the book also gives you the non natives that occur too.
Good one if anyone is visiting Oz

[Alessandro.marinello]

Alessandro,

That looks like the more traditional "red" and yellow one from commerce.  There is also a yellow form (formerly called Calostemma lutea, but now just part of purpurea) that has much more open wide flowers.  Then there are ranges in between.  I have posted pics in the past of red and yellow combinations elsewhere on the forum, which have the shape of the yellow but varying amounts of red in the centre.  There is also a white species, which I have never yet seen in person, and a whole range of colours occurring naturally, which we never see in commerce at all unfortunately. 

Paul
Calostemma luteum, now to be become a form of the purpureum? , I possess the l bulbs of the C. yellow,  but never I have seen its flowers

[Paul T]

Alessandro,

Yes, apparently luteum is now a colour form of purpureum.   There's a lot of differences between them, but I they're similar enough to be together I guess.

[fermi de Sousa]

This is the form of Calostemma purpureum we grow,




cheers
fermi

[arillady]

The two local forms of Calostemma

[Paul T]

Pat,

Good to see them in the wild.  Very dark bract on the second one.  Both very nice.

I've emailed you re the parcel that arrived today.  Thanks kindly!!

[BULBISSIME]

Thank's to a generous forumist ( forum.. miss  ), I got my first flowers this summer, after short rest period, dark and pale forms, very showy 

[fleurbleue]

Lucky boy ! 

[arillady]

Great News that you have them both flowering. We have leaves but no flowers at present.

[BULBISSIME]

Come on Pat !! 
It's only 12 000 km trip 

[arillady]

Fred I am heading to London on 4th September for only two weeks - nearly a week will be spent on the Greek Island of Ikaria as well. My partner and the girls' father was born in Ikaria but came to Australia when he was two. Travelling with a daughter and meeting up with another daughter who lives in London.  Having a few days too near the New Forest with some gardening friends. How I would love to visit France again.

[fermi de Sousa]

It's Calostemma time here again!
This is the white form which Pat sent me a year or two ago
cheers
fermi

[arillady]

You are ahead of us Fermi. I noticed a couple of the pink calostemmas with buds just emerging in the paddock. Also a pink rainlily ex NARGS years ago just about to unfold its flower so I sure hope it heralds rain in the next couple of days. We had 14mls last Wednesday. That is the grand total since mid December last year.

[fermi de Sousa]

Here's the purple one we have - a bit different to Paul's, I think.
Our only yellow one is also just about to open!
cheers
fermi

[fermi de Sousa]

Here's the yellow form in bloom over the weekend
cheers
fermi