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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Slug Killer on June 28, 2008, 11:43:30 AM

Title: Nomocharis
Post by: Slug Killer on June 28, 2008, 11:43:30 AM

Can someone please put a name to this very pretty Nomacharis for me. It's about seven inches tall.

(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk81/SlugKiller/nomacharislong1800.jpg)

(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk81/SlugKiller/nomacharislong700.jpg)

Title: Re: Nomocharis
Post by: arisaema on June 28, 2008, 12:26:52 PM

It's N. pardanthina (http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200027774), beautiful plant! :)

Title: Re: Nomocharis
Post by: Slug Killer on June 28, 2008, 02:32:55 PM

Thanks

Title: Re: Nomocharis
Post by: David Nicholson on June 28, 2008, 06:59:14 PM

I didn't have a clue on the name but I like it!

Title: Re: Nomocharis
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 29, 2008, 03:11:39 AM

Look at all that pollen. Make sure you transfer some to the stigma of each flower!

Title: Re: Nomocharis
Post by: Paul T on June 29, 2008, 06:25:55 AM

Lesley,

I must admit I was thinking that too!  :-[  Worth trying to pollinate it at the very least.  That flower is absolutely spectacular!! :o

Title: Re: Nomocharis
Post by: Maggi Young on June 29, 2008, 05:24:03 PM

Nomocharis can give variation in colours and markings, even from a small population, mostly because I think most plants in cultivation have a bit of hybrid blood in them..... all are gorgeous and we certainly take seed from our plants and keep new bulbs growing on all the time as some plants can be quite short-lived....... with only three years to get a flower in most cases, it is really worth it to keep these beauties in your garden. Nomocharis are a flower which guarantee an "ooh!" when a close up slide is shown to an audience... no-one seems able to resist their charm  8)

Title: Re: Nomocharis
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 29, 2008, 10:07:15 PM

I absolutely agree, about the variation being, most likely, the result of some hybridization. But for garden purposes, it really doesn't matter as every one is a beauty, and as Maggi says, just 3 years from seed to flowering!