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Specific Families and Genera => Amaryllidaceae => Topic started by: Alessandro.marinello on December 30, 2008, 07:59:28 PM

Title: Cyrtanthus
Post by: Alessandro.marinello on December 30, 2008, 07:59:28 PM

Hi all
two Cyrtanthus in flower now, the first Cyrtanthus obrienii, other breed a crossing someone knows?

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Post by: Alessandro.marinello on December 30, 2008, 08:02:00 PM

oter Cyrtanthus x

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Post by: mark smyth on December 30, 2008, 08:04:13 PM

Alessandro those are two lovely Cyrtanthus. What size are they?

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Post by: David Nicholson on December 30, 2008, 08:05:50 PM

Beautiful Cyrtanthus Alessandro.

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Post by: Alessandro.marinello on December 30, 2008, 08:20:11 PM

Mark
the stems length has 40 cm flower 8 cm length

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Post by: Maggi Young on December 30, 2008, 08:30:37 PM

The pink hybrid is very lovely.... but I know little about these plants  :(

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Post by: Alessandro.marinello on December 30, 2008, 08:52:39 PM

I have had from Australia, from three years blooms in this period, but it has not never regulated the seed

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Post by: Maggi Young on December 30, 2008, 10:48:05 PM

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I have had from Australia, from three years blooms in this period, but it has not never regulated the seed
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From this, and from other remarks in other amaryllid pages, should I take it that such hybrids are most commonly infertile?

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Post by: Paul T on December 31, 2008, 06:57:02 AM

I love that pink one.  Very, very nice colour to it.  Quite unusual.

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Post by: Paul T on December 31, 2008, 08:22:20 AM

Howdy All,

Discovered in flower today.... a first flowering of a red Cyrtanthus mackenii (or hybrid thereof, as this is a very large flower).  This is Cyranthus 'Red Prince'.  Beautiful flower.  This means I now have white, yellow, orange, and red forms, but still wanting to get more colours.  I am growing some from seed, so it remains to see what they hold, but I can but hope that something like the wonderful pink posted above will appear.  Such a great genus!!

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Post by: Paul T on December 31, 2008, 09:08:44 AM

I have just realised that some of the seed I am growing of the Cyranthus mackenii actually came from Alessandro.  He sent me seed of a lovely red form a few months ago, which judging by the picture he sent me at the time is quite different in proportions to the 'Red Prince' I just posted pics of.  I hadn't thought about it when I posted the pic.... it's a small world Alessandro.  8)

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Post by: Alessandro.marinello on December 31, 2008, 11:57:42 AM

Paul
Your seeds are of this Cyrtanths, much similar one to the C. obrienii

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Post by: Paul T on December 31, 2008, 12:04:07 PM

But they are more red than the o'brienii aren't they?  Either way, they're darker than the bright orange that I have in the mackenii, and as you can see they are a smaller flower than my 'Red Prince', looking much more like the normal mackenii.  Will be very interesting to see the flowers in the future.  ;D