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Bulbs => Bulbs General => Topic started by: fermi de Sousa on March 23, 2020, 03:43:22 AM
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Biarum davisii ssp marmariense is again the first aroid to flower in our garden
cheers
fermi
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Fermi, those Biarums are so intriguing! love to see them. They seem completely happy in your garden.
I have an asarum maximum 'Silver Panda' growing as undergrowth of a potted Brugmansia, I wonder if anyone knows how to pollinate the flowers? I have never seen Asarum seed. Does anyone grow Asarums? Please share some pics, I'd love to see more!
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Asarum splendens, growing outside.
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Very nice both the A. maximum and A. splendens.
Bart: you don't need to pollinate the flowers, various ground dwelling insects will do the trick. I don't know how fertile is A. maximum but A. europaeum and A. canadense set lots of seeds every year. Problem is that the capsules don't give many clues when the seeds are ready and the ants will snatch the seeds fast (they have arils).
There are also reports of seeds predation by mice and other small rodents.
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Thanks Gabriella,
I will do my best to mimic a woodlouse then, or a slug... I have just about managed to eradicate 'ground dwellers' from this pot....
You don't happen to have a picture of a seedpod or seed?
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Sorry Bart, I understood that only the Brugmansia was in a pot.
I will post few pictures with A. canadense I gathered fast from my website. You will see that there is not much change in the flower/fruit look and it is not a type you can open to see if they are ready (second image). Notice the seeds with large elaiosomes.
What you can easily do in order not to lose the seeds (if) is to enclose the flowers later in a muslin bag (often used to catch Hepatica seeds).
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That's great, thanks Gabriela. I had never paid attention to the fact you had a website, just read the posts. I will have a look now!
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Arum season is starting. I spotted one opening yesterday, and as usual it had its back to me so I had to climb in to the woodland garden to get a decent shot of it. Interestingly, last night it showed signs of opening, this morning it was in full glory,(pictures) and by this afternoon it had already sagged and is not pretty anymore. I don't really know which one this is:
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On my daily exercise walk today I took a picture of a Arum maculatum as comparison:
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Oh dear, all rotated again. I would love to be able to sort it out myself, Maggi, but I have no idea how. Could you post some instructions how one can rotate pictures after posting (or even better, pre-posting)? Thanks!
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Oh dear, all rotated again. I would love to be able to sort it out myself, Maggi, but I have no idea how. Could you post some instructions how one can rotate pictures after posting (or even better, pre-posting)? Thanks!
I've done so several times, Bart - including here : http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=65.msg370435#msg370435 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=65.msg370435#msg370435)
Oddly enough, your photos opened in larger size the right way up, but when I tried to post them as larger they went sideways again! Go figure!
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Thanks Maggi,
I did read all your posts a while ago, and re-read them now- but I can not see what I could do different to avoid this problem. Anyway I also noticed I posted the pic of Arum in the greenhouse and not the ones from my walk. I'll post them now and see what happens:
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fingers crossed!
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edit by maggi - as I think has been said, if the orientation of the image has been changed from the original, it seems that the poster cannot manage then to re-arrange it on the forum. That's where I come in -when I can !!
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Amorphophallus henryi.
Native to Taiwan.
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Several collectors asked for this seedling and to name it: itīs now Arum italicum īGreen Giftī.
(https://up.picr.de/39525848ll.jpg)