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Alessandro.marinello

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Gagea lutea
« on: March 15, 2009, 06:44:51 PM »
a small, endemic of our mounts :)
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Re: Gagea lutea
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2009, 10:17:22 AM »
Alessandro, I doubt it is endemic, it is widespread in our forests.
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Re: Gagea lutea
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2009, 07:30:16 PM »
Vert pretty though. We almost never see these in a bulb list or even a seedlist.
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Re: Gagea lutea
« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2009, 07:57:39 PM »
Alessandro, I doubt it is endemic, it is widespread in our forests.
Hi Yuri
this its distribution in Europe
http://luirig.altervista.org/schedeit/fo/gagea_lutea.htm
« Last Edit: March 18, 2009, 08:03:51 PM by Alessandro.marinello »
Padova N-E Italy climate zone 8

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Re: Gagea lutea
« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2009, 09:58:52 AM »
Last year in April I was given some tiny bulbs by Austrian relatives.
They just told me they were flowering yellow and growing in their meadow.
I had an idea of Gagea, but was not sure.
Now they are flowering with me.

Gagea lutea
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Re: Gagea lutea
« Reply #5 on: March 19, 2009, 12:21:33 PM »
And flowering in a carpet of Erythronium americanum, I think .
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Re: Gagea lutea
« Reply #6 on: March 19, 2009, 12:43:46 PM »
Gagea lutea on a Bulgarian sand dune.
« Last Edit: March 19, 2009, 01:04:41 PM by Maggi Young »
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Re: Gagea lutea
« Reply #7 on: March 19, 2009, 04:52:45 PM »
And flowering in a carpet of Erythronium americanum, I think .
Maggi, I have no idea. I received a pot full two years ago from Mr. Connoisseur.
Cannot find a label, so will have to ask when flowering.
But I remember it being probably a hybrid?
Did not see flowers last year, but now it's a carpet already??
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Re: Gagea lutea
« Reply #8 on: March 19, 2009, 05:00:59 PM »
He may have it as an E.  americanum x umbilicatum.... we just call it the proliferating americanum  .... it can cover the ground faster than an elite athlete  ::) Often VERY reluctant to flower  :(

Very smart ground cover, though!  ;)
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Alessandro.marinello

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Re: Gagea lutea
« Reply #9 on: March 19, 2009, 08:04:47 PM »
Last year in April I was given some tiny bulbs by Austrian relatives.
They just told me they were flowering yellow and growing in their meadow.
I had an idea of Gagea, but was not sure.
Now they are flowering with me.

Gagea lutea
Lvandelft
your photo seems to belong to Gagea spathacea
Padova N-E Italy climate zone 8

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Re: Gagea lutea
« Reply #10 on: March 19, 2009, 08:31:45 PM »
Lvandelft
your photo seems to belong to Gagea spathacea

Alessandro, this probably cannot be, because Gagea spathacea is in Austria only
in Southern Burgenland and rare.
My plant comes from Salzburg/Styria
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