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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: arisaema on August 26, 2024, 01:33:52 PM

Title: Mystery seed-ex pink Sisyrinchium
Post by: arisaema on August 26, 2024, 01:33:52 PM
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)
Title: Re: Mystery seed-ex pink Sisyrinchium
Post by: fermi de Sousa on August 26, 2024, 02:48:29 PM
Looks like a South African geophyte - possibly Hesperantha
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Mystery seed-ex pink Sisyrinchium
Post by: arisaema on August 26, 2024, 03:05:52 PM
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...
Title: Re: Mystery seed-ex pink Sisyrinchium
Post by: MarcR on August 26, 2024, 03:42:41 PM
Arisaema,

This is Olsynium Junceum:

Title: Re: Mystery seed-ex pink Sisyrinchium
Post by: arisaema on August 26, 2024, 05:44:26 PM
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
Title: Re: Mystery seed-ex pink Sisyrinchium
Post by: MarcR on August 26, 2024, 06:34:09 PM
Arisaema,

My picture comes from the website of a reliable vendor.

Foliage of Olsynium juncium tends to be quite variable.
Title: Re: Mystery seed-ex pink Sisyrinchium
Post by: arisaema on August 26, 2024, 06:37:55 PM
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.
Title: Re: Mystery seed-ex pink Sisyrinchium
Post by: Mariette on August 26, 2024, 08:43:20 PM
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
Title: Re: Mystery seed-ex pink Sisyrinchium
Post by: Claire Cockcroft on August 28, 2024, 01:16:41 AM
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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Title: Re: Mystery seed-ex pink Sisyrinchium
Post by: Claire Cockcroft on August 28, 2024, 01:17:50 AM
Here are a few more.

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Title: Re: Mystery seed-ex pink Sisyrinchium
Post by: Claire Cockcroft on August 28, 2024, 01:18:48 AM
Pictures were taken in Patagonia, in Argentina.
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