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Specific Families and Genera => Amaryllidaceae => Topic started by: Hans J on June 07, 2009, 01:14:17 PM

Title: Ammocharis 2009
Post by: Hans J on June 07, 2009, 01:14:17 PM

Hi all ,

today is flowering here :

Ammocharis tinneana

Enjoy
Hans 8)

Title: Re: Ammocharis 2009
Post by: Onion on June 07, 2009, 01:53:43 PM

Wow  :P :P :P

Native in ? South Africa ?
Growing from seeds or buy as a bulb Hans ?

Title: Re: Ammocharis 2009
Post by: Hans J on June 07, 2009, 01:56:31 PM

Hi Uli ,

Yes -Ammocharis is a genus from South Africa .
Bulb bought in last year from a german nursery  ;D

Gruß
Hans

Title: Re: Ammocharis 2009
Post by: Maggi Young on June 07, 2009, 02:24:54 PM

Beautiful colours to the flowers...... do they join on one stem inside the bulb or are these each separate blooms?

Title: Re: Ammocharis 2009
Post by: Hans J on June 07, 2009, 02:43:05 PM

Maggi ,

they have startet before some days and I was a bit dissapointet because they were not red -only ligth pink ....but with every day they get more dark color and now they are really red .
The more light flowers are some days younger - in total thats 8 stems .

Title: Re: Ammocharis 2009
Post by: Paul T on June 08, 2009, 12:31:14 AM

Excellent, Hans.  Interesting bulb.

Title: Re: Ammocharis 2009
Post by: arillady on June 08, 2009, 12:33:26 AM

How fascinating Hans - this is a bulb I have not seen before -looks like one that I should try.

Title: Re: Ammocharis 2009
Post by: Hans J on June 08, 2009, 07:18:35 AM

Thank you all for your interest  ;D

I will try to pollinate it to get some seeds .....

Title: Re: Ammocharis 2009
Post by: Alessandro.marinello on June 09, 2009, 08:56:23 PM

beautifulst Hans
I hope also to see the flowers of mine

Title: Re: Ammocharis 2009
Post by: Heinie on June 13, 2009, 08:14:12 AM

A beautiful flower Hans.

Title: Re: Ammocharis 2009
Post by: Alessandro.marinello on June 14, 2009, 11:27:24 PM

in flower today,Ammocharis coranica

Title: Re: Ammocharis 2009
Post by: Paul T on June 15, 2009, 12:17:01 AM

Very nice, Alessandro.

Title: Re: Ammocharis 2009
Post by: Heinie on June 15, 2009, 05:23:31 AM

Beautiful flower Alessandro. Please post another photo when it is in full flower.

Title: Re: Ammocharis 2009
Post by: Hans J on June 15, 2009, 07:54:52 AM

Alessandro ,

what a beauty !
 :'( it seems my A.coranica will not flower in this year ...

Title: Re: Ammocharis 2009
Post by: Alessandro.marinello on June 15, 2009, 10:49:11 PM

thanks to all
Heinie

when the flowers are all opening, first they are ruined,

I have noticed that the flowers are opened to the sunset

Title: Re: Ammocharis 2009
Post by: Alberto on June 23, 2009, 12:25:20 PM

Hi all, it is the second year this bulbs flowers with me: Ammocharis nerinoides. This year two spikes sprout among the base of the leaves, just at soil level. One spike with 3 flowers and the other with 6. Once it was named Crinum nerinoides. It is strongly scented as the other 2 members of this genus, already showed in this post.

Alberto
Ammocharis nerinoides

Title: Re: Ammocharis 2009
Post by: Paul T on June 23, 2009, 01:08:42 PM

Wow, Alberto.  The flowers really ARE nerine-like aren't they.  The nicest of the genus I've seen so far, flower-wise.  How big are the individual flowers?  Does it flower without the leaves as well?

Thanks for the great pics.

Title: Re: Ammocharis 2009
Post by: Alberto on June 23, 2009, 01:20:05 PM

Hi Paul, I am agree with you: they look like Nerine! The stalk is about 15 cm high, the leaves, present at blooming are filiform, just a few mm wide. The flowers are large thinking to the leaves, long 10 cm and each tepal about 5 cm. The bulb doesn't need a large pot, 4 bulbs can stay in a 20 cm pot.

Alberto

Title: Re: Ammocharis 2009
Post by: Paul T on June 23, 2009, 09:46:00 PM

Alberto,

Thanks for the extra info.  Definitely one I shall add to my "must look out for" list.  ;D  It's a Loooooooong list unfortunately, mainly due to the SRGC forum.  :o

 ;D

Title: Re: Ammocharis 2009
Post by: Hans J on June 24, 2009, 01:35:34 PM

Here is a update of my A.tinneana :

I have carefull pollinatet the flowers ....but after some days I have thinking that the pllination was not succsessfull  :'(

...now last sunday I saw on the ground the fruits emerge ( never seen before on other Amaryllidacae ) :o

here is a pic :

Title: Re: Ammocharis 2009
Post by: Alberto on June 24, 2009, 05:06:58 PM

Hans, in the first picture you posted you can see that ovaries are below the neck of the bulb; so it is why fruits are emerging now.

Alberto

Title: Re: Ammocharis 2009
Post by: Hans J on June 24, 2009, 05:43:38 PM

Alberto ,

thank you for your explanation !
Could you please later post a pic when your A.nerinoides has fruits ?

Title: Re: Ammocharis 2009
Post by: Paul T on June 24, 2009, 10:18:45 PM

Fascinating, Hans.  I wonder if you'll find that all the flowers do come from a single stem and it gradually emerges.  I wondered that when you originally posted the pics of the flowers emerging straight from the bulb.  congratulations on the seed..... always particularly welcome when you have something so unusual and hard to replace.  Great stuff!!  8)

Title: Re: Ammocharis 2009
Post by: Hans J on June 25, 2009, 09:35:19 AM

Thanks Paul  ;)

I will also looking out for Amm. nerinoides - a other thing on my wish list  :D

Title: Re: Ammocharis 2009
Post by: Paul T on June 25, 2009, 10:39:56 AM

Hans,

I'm learning so much here about the Ammocharis and adding so many more of them to my wants list as well.  I have some A. coronarica that have never flowered for me yet, but have never seen any other of the genus at all until here.   ;D

Title: Re: Ammocharis 2009
Post by: Renate Brinkers on June 25, 2009, 09:55:54 PM

Hi Hans, Alberto, Alessandro,

wonderful Ammocharis pictures, the fruits are really special. Do anyone knows how long it could take from seed to flower of A.coranica?

Title: Re: Ammocharis 2009
Post by: Alberto on June 26, 2009, 07:33:35 AM

Renate, my 4 years aged seedlings are far from blooming!

Alberto

Title: Re: Ammocharis 2009
Post by: Renate Brinkers on June 26, 2009, 01:43:55 PM

Alberto,
oh, so it takes some more time....

Title: Re: Ammocharis 2009
Post by: Afloden on June 27, 2009, 03:45:41 AM

 I have over a dozen 8 year old plants from seed that still have not flowered. I plant several outside last summer and they survived the winter with two nights at 7F and 12 days where the temperature never was warmer than 32F.

 Aaron Floden
 Knoxville, Tennessee