Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Specific Families and Genera => Amaryllidaceae => Topic started by: Heinie on February 09, 2010, 08:15:53 PM
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One of my Boophone haemanthoides in flower now.
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wow that is incredible.Heinie do you find it easy to cultivate and is it a large growing plant.
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Heinie
beautiful and enough :o
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Look at the perfect drainage in form of lateral slits in the first photo
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wow that is incredible.Heinie do you find it easy to cultivate and is it a large growing plant.
It looks quite expensive - especially if it comes with its own mobile phone :o ;D ;D ;D
Splendid plant, Heinie!
cheers
fermi
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That's an amazing plant! Is it scented?
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Hi Heinie ,
first my compliment to your succsessful growing of this wonderful plant !!!
I have a little doubt about the name of your plant .....for me it looks like a form ( wintergrowing ) of B.disticha - the color of your plant is really pretty !
Please look here :
http://www.bulbsociety.org/GALLERY_OF_THE_WORLDS_BULBS/GRAPHICS/Boophane/Boophane_haemanthoides/Boophanehaemanthoides.html
Hans
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Dave,
I have seen bulbs the size of a soccer ball in habitat.
Ezeiza,
I cut similar side slots in all my pots with a 1mm angle grinder blade which assists in good drainage of the water.
Fermi,
I had to place the cell phone there for the photo for a friend because he could not believe the measurements of the bulb.
Gail,
It has a very sweet scent.
Hans,
It is B haemanthoides indeed from the Nieuwoudville area and confirmed as such by a number of very knowledgeable members at IBSA when I took the plant in to a meeting last week.
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Heine, we have those vertical cuts in all the containers we have the bulb collection in.
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Heinie, a really good work with your bulb!
It si typical of haemanthoides to have cream flowers turning pink when old!
Alberto
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Heinie ,
B. haemanthoides should have a flower like a Haemanthus .....if you look in PBS so you will find some similar plants like your plant :
http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Boophone
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Hans,
If you look at the 1st and 2nd photos above you will notice that it is similar to the Haemanthus flower with the RED bracts mostly upright (see 1st photo below) where the B disticha flower head forms a ball shape with GREEN bracts (see 2nd photo below). There is also a difference in the seed setting. The B disticha forms a triangular seed pod like a Brunsvigia and the B haemanthoides sets a seed pod similar to a Crinum.
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Heinie ,
OK - you are rigth !!!
Sorry for the trouble but it is all very confusing ....
I have now in meantime received a confirmation for the ID from a important person in the bulb world ....
You can be really lucky with this wonderful plant
Hans
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Hans,
It is very easy to compare the two species when they flower side by side. Here is a photo of the B haemanthoides in this topic and two of my B disticha bulbs that has just completed their flowering cycle together.
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Here the triangle seed pods can be seen on the B disticha on the left
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Thank you Heinie ;)
never to late with learning !
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Hans,
I have a Amarine coming into flower for the first time and can you imagine my excitement. Hopefully my Amarcrinum will also flower this year. I am hoping to make some more Amarygia crosses this year too. My Amaryllis Belladonna and Brunsvigia litorallis and B orientalis are also pushing flowers now.
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:'( :'( :'(
Heinie ....you make me really envy :o
I could only offer you a lot of snow - unusual long and cold winter ....
here are my Amaryllidaceae in this time :-[
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We do not get snow here in Cape Town but the summer brings so much joy with the flowers popping up all the time now. There is life showing in most of the some 300 pots with various bulbs. I am also anxiously waiting for a flower spike to show on one of my Phaedranassa viridiflora bulbs that I managed to buy one year ago. They are just growing babies at the moment and lots of leaves.
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Heini,
like Hans, I am green with envy. I think I have to wait until I am grey with my B.haemanthoides seedlings. Wonderful pictures, also the ones which show both species. Congratulations.
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Renate,
Thanks for the compliment.
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Good stuff Heinie, perhaps one day soon I'll be able to visit your collection :)
I own property much further east, between the towns of Swellendam and Heidelberg, to where I hope to move in a few years time. Many Irids grow there and also huge plants of Brunsvigia (B. orientalis ?) with great leaves growing flat on the ground here and there.
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Rogan,
I have a number of Brunsvigia orientallis pushing scapes at the moment. My Brunsvigia litorallis are at the end of the flowering already. Seed pods are fat with crosses with different Amaryllis Belladonna plants.
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Excellent photos of unknown plants for me. :o 8)
Thanks for showing Heinie!