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Title: Caloscordum nerinifolium
Post by: Palustris on August 13, 2020, 02:18:26 PM: Hope I spelled that correctly.
Question,
Do they change from bright pink to a lovely pale pink as the flowers age. Or have I got some colour variant coming into flower?
Cheers!
Title: Re: Caloscordum nerinifolium
Post by: Maggi Young on August 13, 2020, 04:24:47 PM: Caloscordum neriniflorum (syn.Allium neriniflorum) does indeed fade colour from its flowers as they age - so I think you can be confident in your plant !
Title: Re: Caloscordum nerinifolium
Post by: Maggi Young on August 13, 2020, 04:25:31 PM: Quote from: Maggi Young on August 13, 2020, 04:24:47 PM
Caloscordum neriniflorum (syn.Allium neriniflorum) does indeed fade colour from its flowers as they age- and there are known colour variants depending on provenance - so I think you can be confident in your plant !
Title: Re: Caloscordum nerinifolium
Post by: Palustris on August 15, 2020, 03:46:06 PM: Beginning to wonder if I DO have two different Alliums in the same clump.
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Standard Allium
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Different one.
What do you think?
Title: Re: Caloscordum nerinifolium
Post by: Maggi Young on August 15, 2020, 05:38:12 PM: Ooh, errr um.... well yes those do seem like two different types!
Title: Re: Caloscordum nerinifolium
Post by: Rimmer de Vries on August 30, 2020, 02:53:53 PM: Not many alpines sirvive in the hot and soggy Kentucky summers but Caloscordum neriniflorum seems to have survived in a pile of sand and limestone