Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Specific Families and Genera => Amaryllidaceae => Topic started by: Alberto on July 16, 2010, 10:43:14 AM
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Here is the first blooming for me of Scadoxus cinnabarinus. It comes from tropical Africa so it is not suited for a typical English rock garden! :-[ Sorry.
Alberto
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But good for a nice pot next your rock garden
very nice salmon colour
are there later seeds available ???
Your Crinum I bought from you is doing very well here
Roland
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Roland, I have never sold Crinum to anyone! I think I am not the people you are referring!
Alberto
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Hi to all,
some Scadoxus pictures.
The first one, Scadoxus `König Albert´is an old Hybrid of Scadoxus multiflorus ssp. katherinae x Scadoxus puniceus. It flowers with the leaves in summer and reaches up to 60cm. The leaves are waved as S.puniceus.
The second plant is (99% sure) Scadoxus multiflorus ssp.katherinae, the difference you can see at the leaves, they are not waved, more like the leaves of S.multiflorus. It also flowers whith the leaves.
The hight is 60cm.
S.m.ssp.multiflorus just grows 30cm high and flowers in spring, before leaves emerge. See pictures to compare.
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Alberto,
wonderful picture of S.cinnabarinus. Hopefully mine will flower next year but this year I am glad to have some other Scadoxus flowering. Did you also made the experience that the summer flowering Scadoxus only flowering really good in really hot summers?
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Renate, here summers are always hot 8)
Alberto
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Alberto,
so it should be Scadoxus paradise!
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Send me all your Scadoxus, at least to spend the summer time! ;)
Alberto
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They are very fine!
please handle to have seeds!
Alberto
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Here is the first blooming for me of Scadoxus cinnabarinus. It comes from tropical Africa so it is not suited for a typical English rock garden! :-[ Sorry.
Alberto
Not for the English rock garden, but maybe the Scottish rock garden would be ok ;D ;D ;D
Lovely flower Alberto, maybe grown in a pot in the greenhouse would be ok...you are lucky to be able to grown these plants outdoors.
Thanks for sharing this with us.
Angie :)
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Angie, there is a misunderstanding: Italy is not in the tropics! I grow my Scadoxus in pot.
Alberto
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Hello Renate
Good to see you at the forum again
speak you soon
Roland
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:o Wow Alberto :o
Did you make the flower with wax or with paper ( origami ) ?
what a lot of work ::)
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Hans, you usually tell me I am not patient :) You should try to fold all those little piece of paper! and then to mount together so you have not to see the glue! ;D The more difficult is the colour!
Alberto
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Hans, you usually tell me I am not patient :) You should try to fold all those little piece of paper! and then to mount together so you have not to see the glue! ;D The more difficult is the colour!
Alberto
Hans, don't listen to Alberto.... he is lying to you... anyone can see that this flower is for sure made of WAX and not paper! ;D ;D
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Maggi - yes you are right ;)
This flower is made from wax ....I know the color ( from my earlier profession ;D ;D ;D )
Alberto : I did not know that you are be so skilful :P
I'm really a bit surprised about this color ...cinnabarinus means :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnabar
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Hans, many thanks for your kind ( :-X) words!
Maggi: I didn't expect from you :( a stab in the back...
Alberto
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Hans, many thanks for your kind ( :-X) words!
Maggi: I didn't expect from you :( a stab in the back...
Alberto
Alberto, I had to do it.... there was a danger to Forumists from trying with paper and scissors to copy this plant... too dangerous for most of them to be allowed sharp objects!! ;)
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I'm really a bit surprised about this color ...cinnabarinus means :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnabar
Hans, the cinnabar colour is: bright red colour tinted with orange.
This can satisfy you? :)
Alberto
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When I think of the colour of Rhododendron cinnabarinum it is a also more orange/red than what I have in my mind's eye as cinnarbar.... which is certainly more a cinnabar RED!
Here are two examples....
[attach=1] ..... the common ore of mercury
[attach=2].... a lacquer carving on gold
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Alberto ,
I'm really familar with this color ( cinnabar ) from my cacti - there is a plant which is called Lobivia cinnabarina - here is a scann from a old book ( Curtis Botanical Magacin 1847 )
This color is really different from your flower color !
Also there exist some pics in the web from this plants :
http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Scadoxus
http://www.luphen.org.uk/public/2003/2003kewgardens1.htm
http://www.meemelink.com/prints%20pages/12738.Amaryllidacea%20-%20Haemanthus%20cinnabarinus.htm
In the description of this Taxon is written : inflorescence spherical with numerous pink or red flowers
....so it seems you have more the pink clone
Hans
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Send me all your Scadoxus, at least to spend the summer time! ;)
Alberto
continue to dream :)
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Alberto,
I will try my best to get seed. I have some seedling from another try with König Albert, just a few but you can see differences. Some are spotted, some not.
And in the meantime I will try some Origami.
Roland,
nice to meet you here :)
Hans,
if you ask 10 people: Which colour is this? Be sure, you get 10 different opinions.
Maggi: thanks for putting together what should be not separated.
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Hans, many thanks for your kind ( :-X) words!
Maggi: I didn't expect from you :( a stab in the back...
Alberto
Alberto, I had to do it.... there was a danger to Forumists from trying with paper and scissors to copy this plant... too dangerous for most of them to be allowed sharp objects!! ;)
Maggi,
So instead you have these same forumists now working with hot wax and risking burns? :o :o :o :o I'm not sure that the sharp objects weren't a better idea? ;D
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In the description of this Taxon is written : inflorescence spherical with numerous pink or red flowers
....so it seems you have more the pink clone
Hans
Hans, so it looks now I have to find the red one too! 8)
Ciao
Alberto
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Alberto ,
if you are not like this pink clone ....please send it to me ;D
Ciao
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Hans, many thanks for your kind ( :-X) words!
Maggi: I didn't expect from you :( a stab in the back...
Alberto
Alberto, I had to do it.... there was a danger to Forumists from trying with paper and scissors to copy this plant... too dangerous for most of them to be allowed sharp objects!! ;)
Oh dear........ it wasn't my best day, was it? :'(
Maggi,
So instead you have these same forumists now working with hot wax and risking burns? :o :o :o :o I'm not sure that the sharp objects weren't a better idea? ;D
Oh dear........ it wasn't my best day, was it? :'(
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It'll be lost on them but whenever Hans and Alberto entertain us with their badinage my thoughts always turn to Morecambe and Wise ;D
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David :
What is Morecambe and Wise ???
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Hans, Morecambe and Wise were a famous and much loved British comedy double act throughout the 1960's, 70's and early 80's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP8TUe993uo
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ahhhh -we are a comedy double ::)
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Maggi ,Alberto and all
here is a pic of a cacti with exactly the color ( Lobivia cinnabarina )
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Back to the Scadoxus ;)
Scadoxus mulitiflorus flowering among Sternbergias in my greenhouse.
Poul
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I have Scadoxus pouniceus 'Magnificus' just about to open here at the moment, but not open enough to post a pic as yet.
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Wow Paul it's like a firework 8)
Angie :)
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Yes Angie, but a bit early for Guy Fawkes day ;D
Poul
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I bought this as Haemanthus sp. at the RHS Tatton show and am sure it is now Scadoxus multiflorus.
I am pleased with it,the colour is deeper in real life.
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Tony,
saw you post just today. You are right, it is S.multiflorus, here in Germany most of the sold S.multiflorus are still named as Haemanthus.