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Bulbs => Bulbs General => Topic started by: Rogan on January 29, 2009, 10:36:22 AM

Title: Clown faces
Post by: Rogan on January 29, 2009, 10:36:22 AM

Don't you just love the little clown faces - the pollinator must have a sense of humour! Gladiolus debilis on a hillside in the southern Cape:

Title: Re: Clown faces
Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on January 29, 2009, 10:41:21 AM

Wonderful flower Rogan !!!

Title: Re: Clown faces
Post by: Maggi Young on January 29, 2009, 11:03:55 AM

Rogan, lovethe Gladiolus... and the Disas, elsewhere.
(I posted a link to your beautiful Crinum shown recently in the PBS wiki.... a stunner!)

Title: Re: Clown faces
Post by: Michael on January 29, 2009, 11:55:19 AM

Lol, very nice!

Title: Re: Clown faces
Post by: Rogan on January 29, 2009, 12:49:25 PM

"(I posted a link to your beautiful Crinum shown recently in the PBS wiki.... a stunner!)"

Thanks for doing so Maggi - the wholesale destruction of our natural fauna and flora is heartbreaking, so many of these magnificent plants end up in dubious potions that have absolutely no quantifiable effects on the ailments they're meant to be alleviating!

Some of our young scientists who are studying traditional medicine and other "magi-cultural" practises, make a point of going to these herbalist markets to buy up all the bulbs they can find - usually at R7 (50p) for three large, mature bulbs - and re-establish them in botanical gardens (Boophane, Brunsvigia, Crinum, Cyrtanthus, Hypoxis and countless others). So many plants have now become critically endangered or extinct in the wild due to these unsustainable practises but, I suppose this is not news...

Perhaps this post should be moved to the "Moan, moan, moan..." page!

Title: Re: Clown faces
Post by: Carlo on January 29, 2009, 01:27:24 PM

Wow! I had to dig a little (no pun intended) but did find Rogan's Crinum stuhlmannii, referred to by Maggi, on the PBS wiki. What an amazing flower--and in abundance. I haven't messed about with the genus yet, but here's inspiration for sure!

Title: Re: Clown faces
Post by: Lesley Cox on January 29, 2009, 08:02:31 PM

So where are the Disas and the Crinum on the Forum? I can't find them. :'(
My previous Notify everything instruction seems not to be working and many new topics aren't getting through. Some older ones have gone as well.

Title: Re: Clown faces
Post by: fermi de Sousa on January 29, 2009, 11:08:49 PM

Quote from: Lesley Cox on January 29, 2009, 08:02:31 PM

So where are the Disas and the Crinum on the Forum? I can't find them. :'(
My previous Notify everything instruction seems not to be working and many new topics aren't getting through. Some older ones have gone as well.

try this link: http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2995.msg72164;topicseen#new (http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2995.msg72164;topicseen#new)
cheers
fermi