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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: arisaema on August 26, 2024, 01:33:52 PM
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Any ideas on this lovely little thing, received from last years seed-ex as Olsynium junceum?
(https://i.imgur.com/BUZxsgQ.jpeg)
(https://i.imgur.com/XIhSSaw.jpeg)
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Looks like a South African geophyte - possibly Hesperantha
cheers
fermi
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Thank you, Fermi! Hesperantha does look like a match, although it's hard to judge the size from pictures - this is your typical 10-15cm tall in a 9cm pot. It's first-year flowering from seeds, and certainly hasn't been pampered...
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Arisaema,
This is Olsynium Junceum:
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Arisaema,
This is Olsynium Junceum:
I replied you in the other thread, whatever is in your picture lacks the "Juncus-like" foliage, but judging by Google it's a common misidentification... See here for the real Olsynium junceum:
https://catalogoplantas.udec.cl/?q=node/863
https://www.chileflora.com/Florachilena/FloraEnglish/HighResPages/EH0296.htm
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Arisaema,
My picture comes from the website of a reliable vendor.
Foliage of Olsynium juncium tends to be quite variable.
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Foliage of Olsynium jundium tends to be quite variable.
I saw the same pictures at two different seemingly reliable vendors on two continents... I can assure you they're both misidentified, there's nothing "junceum" about them. The two links I posted are both from the native habitat of the species, and they fit the description.
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Having sown Olsynium junceum myself, I think this is an interesting source of information.
https://www.llifle.com/Encyclopedia/BULBS/Family/Iridaceae/30803/Olsynium_junceum
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I'm having trouble posting pictures. Let's try this a third time.
I looked up a few photos of Olsynium junceum taken in 2013 and 2017.
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Here are a few more.
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Pictures were taken in Patagonia, in Argentina.