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Specific Families and Genera => Amaryllidaceae => Topic started by: Alessandro.marinello on September 15, 2009, 08:29:54 PM

Title: Hymenocallis durangoensis
Post by: Alessandro.marinello on September 15, 2009, 08:29:54 PM

today in flower, Hymenocallis durangoensis, native to Durango state in Mexico

Title: Re: Hymenocallis durangoensis
Post by: Onion on September 15, 2009, 08:54:33 PM

Alessandro,

superb plant :o. Must you protect this plants in your area, in winter?

Title: Re: Hymenocallis durangoensis
Post by: Ragged Robin on September 15, 2009, 09:59:48 PM

Just wonderful, almost extraterrestrial  :o  the anthers floating in space  :D

Title: Re: Hymenocallis durangoensis
Post by: Alessandro.marinello on September 15, 2009, 11:09:29 PM

Onion
I do not possess a heated greenhouse, I hold this it within house, in winter

Title: Re: Hymenocallis durangoensis
Post by: Alessandro.marinello on September 16, 2009, 08:54:00 AM

Ragged
thanks for your description, sin the flower is of short duration, a single day

Title: Re: Hymenocallis durangoensis
Post by: Onion on September 16, 2009, 07:13:29 PM

Alessandro,

have you coniferneedles at the surface on these pots of Hymenocallis?

Title: Re: Hymenocallis durangoensis
Post by: Alessandro.marinello on September 16, 2009, 09:05:49 PM

Onion
I hold pots of some genus (the Eucharis, caliphruria, Scadoxus and Haemanthus) under a Abies, thus do not have directed sun, they do not seem to have problems, and they do not grow infesting grass

Title: Re: Hymenocallis durangoensis
Post by: Onion on September 17, 2009, 07:13:54 PM

Alessandro,

at the first moment I thought, this is one of the secrets in the cultivation of the Amaryllidaceae you grow. But no secrets, only nature  ;) 

Title: Re: Hymenocallis durangoensis
Post by: Alessandro.marinello on October 03, 2009, 03:42:04 PM

A little behind schedule in blooming,Hymenocallis littoralis