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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: johnw on June 22, 2008, 02:40:41 PM

Title: Pyrolaceae
Post by: johnw on June 22, 2008, 02:40:41 PM

Pyrola asarifolia in bloom here today. I read that it is close to P. minor but minor's style does not project beyond the petals. The P. asarifolia is certainly tiny and very hard to photograph leaves with flowers.

johnw

Title: Re: Pyrolaceae
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 23, 2008, 12:37:40 AM

That is a delightful little gem. Especially I'm taken with it because, as I mentioned in Kristl's My Bit of Heaven thread, P. asarifolia is the only species in the genus we are permitted to bring into NZ. This means that someone must already have imported it pre 1992. I wonder who it was and has he/she still got it now?

Title: Re: Pyrolaceae
Post by: johnw on June 23, 2008, 02:45:02 AM

Leslie - We'll see if it sets seed then you can lose your mind try to sprout it!

Doubt if either of us will do much carpet bedding with them.

johnw

Title: Re: Pyrolaceae
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 23, 2008, 04:24:31 AM

Maybe the approved shortia method? But I haven't had any joy with that either.