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Alessandro.marinello

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Cyrtanthus
« 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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Re: Cyrtanthus
« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2008, 08:02:00 PM »
oter Cyrtanthus x
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« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2008, 08:04:13 PM »
Alessandro those are two lovely Cyrtanthus. What size are they?
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« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2008, 08:05:50 PM »
Beautiful Cyrtanthus Alessandro.
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Re: Cyrtanthus
« Reply #4 on: December 30, 2008, 08:20:11 PM »
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the stems length has 40 cm flower 8 cm length
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Re: Cyrtanthus
« Reply #5 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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Re: Cyrtanthus
« Reply #6 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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« Reply #7 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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Re: Cyrtanthus
« Reply #8 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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Re: Cyrtanthus
« Reply #9 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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Re: Cyrtanthus
« Reply #10 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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Re: Cyrtanthus
« Reply #11 on: December 31, 2008, 11:57:42 AM »
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Your seeds are of this Cyrtanths, much similar one to the C. obrienii
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« Reply #12 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
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