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Specific Families and Genera => Amaryllidaceae => Topic started by: fermi de Sousa on January 08, 2016, 05:39:18 AM
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We had rain a few days ago so rain-lilies are out again:
Zephyranthes 'Grandjax'
Habranthus martinezii x H. robustus - this is the clone we have available "commercially"
Habranthus martinezii x H. robustus 'Russell Manning' which I raised myself
Habranthus martinezii x2
cheers
fermi
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Zephyranthes Pink Beauty Posted in our Facebook group
Plants grown by and picture posted with permission from Ina Crossley
Roland
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A well-named plant; they look stunning. Well grown too.
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We had rain a few days ago so rain-lilies are out again:
Zephyranthes 'Grandjax'
Habranthus martinezii x H. robustus - this is the clone we have available "commercially"
Habranthus martinezii x H. robustus 'Russell Manning' which I raised myself
Habranthus martinezii x2
cheers
fermi
You grow 'em well Fermi.
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Yesterday I noticed a bloom on this seedling of a Zephyranthes called 'Bangkok Yellow' which has the same parentage as 'Ajax' (Z.candida x citrina, I think). Simon or Chris in Bulgaria sent me the seed a few years ago and I had a flower last year which looked a bit paler,
cheers
fermi
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I got these zephs a few years ago labelled as "Lemon Rain-lilies" - when they flowered I thought they looked just the same as regular Zephyranthes candida.
Today they do look a bit lemony - or is that just wishful thinking?
cheers
fermi
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Same here Fermi
For me it is just a selling trick or somebody who drunk one to much and started hallucinating for he named it ;D
Roland
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Only just noticed that Zephyranthes 'Ajax' has been in flower, so they look a bit tired in this pic!
Zephyranthes candida is also doing well,
cheers
fermi
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Very nice Fermi. They wouldn't do nearly as well as yours, if at all, in my conditions.
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Very nice Fermi. They wouldn't do nearly as well as yours, if at all, in my conditions.
David,
They can take a lot warmer climate than where I live as well - we saw Z.candida flowering in winter in Goa a few years ago!
A month after the initial burst of bloom, the Zephyranthes candida put on another show yesterday
cheers
fermi
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I'm trying to set up a Dropbox site for copies of botanical articles on rain lilies, especially the original descriptions. Is there a way to show those files here or to upload to this site? I'm not really sure what the best way is to share a lot of files, some PDF format and other as scanned images of the paper format.
Any suggestions?
Jim
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It seems Dropbox files can be shared publicly,( that is by those not having a dropbox account), by using a link ... https://www.dropbox.com/help/167 (https://www.dropbox.com/help/167)
https://techwalla.com/content/create-public-dropbox (https://techwalla.com/content/create-public-dropbox)
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Dropbox-MPAA-File-sharing-virtual-locker-Bono,news-14935.html (http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Dropbox-MPAA-File-sharing-virtual-locker-Bono,news-14935.html)
I must say such a shared resource would be a great idea, Jim - thanks for working on this.
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Thanks, Maggi!
OK, let's see how this works. I scanned in the 10 pages of an article by Thad Howard and Scot Ogden in HERBERTIA 1990 and placed the scanned image files (one page per file) in Dropbox:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4uzkxn8c6oufjdg/AACPxHgNzSBBmbvQEHmOVYXOa?dl=0 (https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4uzkxn8c6oufjdg/AACPxHgNzSBBmbvQEHmOVYXOa?dl=0)
I hope you can access those image files. I have a nice little collection of PDFs and scanned images for a number of original descriptions of various species of Habranthus and Zephyranthes. Please let me know the results on this.
Jim
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I can open and read those, Jim. And could download them too, if I wished.
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Thanks Maggi, that's great. I'll start uploading some of the files I have accumulated on Zephyranthes and Habranthus.
Jim
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This is the link to the Dropbox folder where I am copying my collection of original description files for rain lilies:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qfm2hdh2bqjj07d/AADSbS9gB9Xn9tS9p4AU_e0Va?dl=0 (https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qfm2hdh2bqjj07d/AADSbS9gB9Xn9tS9p4AU_e0Va?dl=0)
I plan to gradually add more of these files to this folder.
Jim
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Well done, Jim - great idea to share all of this information. Thank you!
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Hello,
the seeds of this Zephyranthes were labelled "Zephyranthes citrina". Actually this was wrong. I suppose now that it's Z. primulina but I'd prefer to have confirmed that by someone who knows more about these plants.
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Hannelore
P.S. Now I need seeds (or bulbs) of true Zephyranthes citrina - possibly in exchange with mine.
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the seeds of this Zephyranthes were labelled "Zephyranthes citrina". Actually this was wrong. I suppose now that it's Z. primulina but I'd prefer to have confirmed that by someone who knows more about these plants.
Hannelore,
I would agree that your yellow rain lily is Z. primulina. Also, I may have or will soon have seeds of Z. citrina which you can have. Just send me your postal address.
Jim
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Zephyranthes smallii. Bulbs from PBS.
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Variations in the flowers of Zephyranthes smallii.
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Habranthus gracilifolius and Habranthus tubispathus var. texensis.
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Sorry, Ralph,
but I think the first one is a pink form of H. tubispathus - notorious for turning up in seed exchanges in place of rarer species :(
But quite nice in its own right,
cheers
fermi
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Could be.
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With the recent rains across the American mid west after weeks of incredible hot temperatures nd no rain for months the zephranthes are beginning to bloom.
the plants pictures are as follows:
pale yellow- Zeph. primulina
pink- Zeph ex pink beauty
red- Zeph. katherinae rubra
big white- Zeph magnoi
tiny white- Zeph. minima
all are grown from PBS BX/SX seed and they bloom in 2-3 years or sooner.
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Rimmer, see here: http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=13909.03 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=13909.03)
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Rimmer, see here: http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=13909.03 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=13909.03)
Threads combined now, Ralph and Rimmer :D
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Last year I bought some Habranthus robustusfrom Parkers - v. cheap special offer. This year they flowered very well but set no seed. Is this a commercial sterile form? My H. tubispathus produce an embarrassment of seed. I also flowered Z. smallii for the first time after 7 years. I must have been getting the watering regime wrong, I guess.
Erle
Anglesey
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Zeph reginea Planted next to the Z. Primulina.
Z. Reginea (if identified correctly) is a smaller plant with shorter and narrower foliage. Second photo show the Z primulina now past behind the out of focus Z reginea.
Both Z reginea and primuline from March 2015 sowing of NARGS seed started in pots! I now have very little luck starting rain lily seed in pots and start all in water in a small covered cup.
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Zephyranthes candida, outdoors in the garden.
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There was some rain a week ago when we were away as we found spent flower-heads on Habranthus tubispathus which were joined this week by a few more due to more recent rain,
cheers
fermi