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Bulbs => Bulbs General => Topic started by: Rafa on February 27, 2007, 11:25:32 PM

Title: Romulea
Post by: Rafa on February 27, 2007, 11:25:32 PM

Hello,

Romulea bulbocodium blooming now.

Title: Re: Romulea
Post by: fermi de Sousa on February 28, 2007, 07:22:37 AM

Rafa,
Romulea is one of my favourite genera of South African bulbs, though this one is Mediterranean isn't it?
Hopefully we'll get some good blooms on ours in the spring and I can show you some of the ones we grow. Keep your pics coming!
cheers
fermi

Title: Re: Romulea
Post by: Rafa on February 28, 2007, 09:14:56 AM

Hello Fermi,
Yes i't is, this is a picture of wild Romulea bulbocodium. In Spain also there are
R. columnae ssp. occidentalis
R. columnae ssp. columnae
R. clusiana
R. uliginosa
R. ramiflora ssp. gaditana

I'm  also love this genus, like the rest of Iridaceae. Fermi, do you grow R. phoenicia? I have some seeds, collected from the wild in Israel, I you want I could send you some.

Title: Re: Romulea
Post by: biodiversite on February 28, 2007, 09:15:28 PM

Rafa,
Did you see my previous post http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=222.0 ?
What do you think about the identification of this plant ?

Title: Re: Romulea
Post by: Rafa on February 28, 2007, 11:30:14 PM

I can't aport any information to ID, I think, it's not enought a picture to identified them, It's necessary to exam the plant.

About Gynandriris, Peter Goldblat has included this genus as Moraea. I LOVE this genus Moraea. I will try to take pictures a huge field in Caceres (Spain) with this plant.

Regards

Title: Re: Romulea
Post by: udo on March 12, 2007, 07:28:02 PM

Hello Rafa, can you me say, what is this for species
from Romulea, coll. in S-Europe ?

Title: Re: Romulea
Post by: Rafa on March 13, 2007, 07:53:08 AM

I think it is Romulea columnae.

Title: Re: Romulea
Post by: udo on March 13, 2007, 07:40:19 PM

Thanks Rafa for this information. This is a very nice species,
three flowers from one bulb.