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Specific Families and Genera => Rhododendron and other Ericaceae => Topic started by: Maggi Young on October 21, 2014, 10:55:12 AM

Title: Query from new forum member re Epacridaceae
Post by: Maggi Young on October 21, 2014, 10:55:12 AM

New forum member "Fossil Plants" is interested in making contact with ........

"Anyone out there growing members of what was the Epacridaceae (now Ericaceae-Styphelioideae)? I would love to hear from you! "

Title: Re: Query from new forum member re Epacridaceae
Post by: Lesley Cox on October 22, 2014, 07:49:08 AM

I'm having some success with Richea scoparia. I have a good nursery batch from seed and one, a year older, is about 18cms high and wide now, a very attractive little shrublet. It hasn't flowered yet. I'm not sure what its ultimate height should be. For now, it lives in a pot.

Title: Re: Query from new forum member re Epacridaceae
Post by: Hoy on October 28, 2014, 04:34:45 PM

I did grow some but I don't!

Here's an ordinary Ericaceae, Rhododendron baileyi thinking it is spring.

Title: Re: Query from new forum member re Epacridaceae
Post by: Mark Griffiths on October 31, 2014, 04:05:32 PM

I can't quite remember what was in that family..I grew Cyathodes colensoi several times in the greenhouse. I raised Cyathodes fraseri from seed - eventually I gave that to my mother who planted it out in peat blocks and it lasted several years there and only released from a pot did it flower. I also had one of the tiny Dracophyllums about an inch accross and high - that came from Jack Drake's nursery.

Title: Re: Query from new forum member re Epacridaceae
Post by: ichristie on November 01, 2014, 05:01:10 PM

Hello, we still grow Cyathodes colensoi and Cyathodes fraseri plus Epacris palludosa, E . petrophylla and E. microphylla  have flowered them in some years will look for pictures,  cheers Ian the Christie kind.