Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Bulbs => Bulbs General => Topic started by: Diane Whitehead on February 09, 2010, 10:56:29 PM
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I have seedling gladiolus of many species. The leaves are either
sword- shaped like those of commercial gladiolus, or thread-like
if they are small species with weirdly-shaped flowers.
One pot has leaves that are completely different. They are unlike
any other bulbs I have grown.
The seeds were labelled "Gladiolus sp yellow" in the AGS 2006 exchange.
The leaves are 60 cm long by 3 mm wide. They have a strong ridge
in the middle of both top and bottom sides. They would have a diamond
outline if cut. I don't think a photo would show this.
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
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It is Gladiolus tristis, it had already flowered here last year.
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Thank you, Alberto.
Its leaf grooves make perfect places for aphids.
I can't just run my thumb and finger along to
squash them as I do with flat leaves.
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Hi Diane, but if in the squashing process there is a virused plant, the following ones will be inoculated.