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Specific Families and Genera => Amaryllidaceae => Topic started by: Ray on December 10, 2009, 09:33:11 AM

Title: x Urceocharis clibranii
Post by: Ray on December 10, 2009, 09:33:11 AM

Has anybody heard of this plant or x Urceocharis edentata.It was bred by a Mr Clibran of Altringham about 1896.These plants were bred by crossing Eucharis grandiflora with Urceolina urceolata.Not likely to be in AU but just wondering if its still around.bye Ray

Title: Re: x Urceocharis glibranii
Post by: Hans J on December 10, 2009, 09:44:08 AM

Hi Ray ,

Never heard before .....
I have just a bit searched : the correct name is Urceocharis clibranii
it exist also a a second of this hybrids : Urceocharis edentata - maybe a natural hybrid

Greetings
Hans

Title: Re: x Urceocharis glibranii
Post by: Paul T on December 10, 2009, 10:16:36 AM

Not a cross I would have thought likely to have taken.  What were the flowers like?

Title: Re: x Urceocharis glibranii
Post by: Ray on December 10, 2009, 10:23:20 AM

Quote from: Paul T on December 10, 2009, 10:16:36 AM

Not a cross I would have thought likely to have taken.  What were the flowers like?

Hi Paul,read this in a friend's gardening book and there were no pics of the flowers and can't remember if there was a written description.Hans found them on the net so maybe there is a description there.bye Ray

Title: Re: x Urceocharis glibranii
Post by: Hans J on December 10, 2009, 10:28:14 AM

Ray + Paul :

I have not found a pic of U.clibranii ....but if you look on the IBS website there is a drawning of U.edentata -they looks nice !

Hans

Title: Re: x Urceocharis glibranii
Post by: Alberto on December 13, 2009, 08:01:54 PM

http://www.bulbsociety.org/GALLERY_OF_THE_WORLDS_BULBS/GRAPHICS/Urceocharis/Urceocharis_clibrani/Urceocharis_clibrani.html

Title: Re: x Urceocharis glibranii
Post by: Alberto on December 13, 2009, 08:35:54 PM

Urceocharis Clibrani is the name given by Dr. Masters to a
hybrid between Urceolina pendula and Eucharis grandiflora,
and originated by Messrs. Clibran, of Oldfield Nurseries, Al-
trincham, England. Judging from a figure in the Gardeners'
Chronicle the flowers are curiously intermediate in form be-
tween the two parents, and they are very beautiful and inter-
esting. The flowers are borne on ascending stalks as in
Eucharis, not pendulous as in Urceolina. They are pure
white, borne in umbels, each one two and a half inches long
with a slender tube expanding into a cup-shaped limb. The
new hybrid promises to be of great decorative value.

From: GARDEN AND FOREST, 1892

Title: Re: x Urceocharis glibranii
Post by: Paul T on December 13, 2009, 10:26:20 PM

Alberto,

And do they still exist?  Has the hybrid been remade successfully at any time?

Title: Re: x Urceocharis clibranii
Post by: Alberto on January 10, 2010, 04:46:42 PM

Sorry Paul for the delaying in answering you: sorry but I do not know!

Alberto