Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Specific Families and Genera => Amaryllidaceae => Topic started by: jshields on August 14, 2019, 09:19:18 PM
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I have a plant received under the name Cyrtanthus labiatus, but it is not that species. I suspect it might be a hybrid of labiatus with something such as elatus. It might have come from Bill Dijk, in case he sees this and remembers; it would have been around 2002. This plant makes bulblets like, e.g., elatus x montanus.
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There is a good picture of labiatus flowers in "The Color Encyclopedia of Cape Bulbs" by Manning, Goldblatt, and Snijman (2002), see page 120. A much less sharp image can be found as follows:
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Does anyone know what this plant of mine really is?
Jim
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Jim
Your plant looks just like my C. elatus x montanus in bloom now too, about 250 mile to your south
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My "labiatus" flower does not spread the petal tips like the (elatus x montanus) flowers do. I have a montanus about to bloom, so I will cross the montanus pollen onto the "x-labiatus" flowers. If I get seeds, maybe we can tell something from their eventual flowers' form.
My (elatus x montanus) bulbs have not bloomed yet, up here n the North. Maybe my pots are way too crowded; I will have to repot them someday soon.
Jim
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The bloom on my Cyrtanthus obliquus has filled out some, as a couple more buds become more nearly open (on the top).
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The last blooming Cyrtanthus montanus that still looks decent is about ready to fade away itself (on the bottom).
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It seems hard to believe, with this hot summer weather, that all these potted bulbs will have to move inside the greenhouses in just a couple more weeks.
Jim