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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Hans J on September 17, 2007, 08:02:08 PM

Title: Puzzle
Post by: Hans J on September 17, 2007, 08:02:08 PM

Hi @ all ,

here is a little puzzle :
Knows anybody here this plant ???
( psssst be quiet Bernie )

Enjoy
Hans

Title: Re: Puzzle
Post by: Hans J on September 17, 2007, 09:16:57 PM

not only one answer  ???

a little help : it is not from Africa ;D

Title: Re: Puzzle
Post by: Maggi Young on September 17, 2007, 09:26:06 PM

No answer, Hans, but , you see, seventeen people have been looking... and thinking!
 Because of what has been the subject of conversation in other pages, I would make a guess for this to be a very rare  Brazilian amaryllid... but... 1) you have said you do not grow it and 2) I think the leaves are too wide and fat. So...  ??? I have no answer, either  :-\

Title: Re: Puzzle
Post by: Hans J on September 17, 2007, 09:38:30 PM

Mhhhhhh Maggi - you are on the rigth way !
It is a Amaryllidaceae - yes  ;D
and it is a plant from South America ...but not from Brasil like Worsleya - it is from Peru !
come on  ::)

Title: Re: Puzzle
Post by: Carlo on September 17, 2007, 09:42:35 PM

I'm going for Rauhia peruviana (or multiflora depending on who you talk to).

Carlo

Title: Re: Puzzle
Post by: Hans J on September 17, 2007, 09:50:23 PM

Hi Carlo  ;D ;D ;D you are the winner !

I think you will may be grown it in your botanical garden!
This plants are really rare - they are named after a german botanist :
Prof. Werner Rauh - he has worked in Heidelberg .
I had the luck to meet him before many years when he gives lectures for Cacti people - he was also a big specialist for the flora of Madagascar .

Title: Re: Puzzle
Post by: Maggi Young on September 17, 2007, 09:58:10 PM

Well done, Carlo! I was going to suggest Eustephia... that's from Peru, isn't it?

Title: Re: Puzzle
Post by: Hans J on September 17, 2007, 10:30:13 PM

Maggi ,

if you look here you will find all Amaryllidaceae :

http://www.amaryllidaceae.org/index.htm

Eustephia grows not only in Peru ,it is also in Bolivia and Argentina
( E.juyjuyensis)

Title: Re: Puzzle
Post by: Carlo on September 17, 2007, 11:47:29 PM

Dr. Rauh is quite famous amongst the "fat-plant" people (another group I am quite fond of). These are the caudiciform succulents that develop quite attractive swollen root systems that can be raised and displayed like gnarly old trunks. I have a collection of small, but growing specimens, and like them as much as the orchids that I grow.

I do NOT grow Rauhia peruviana (yet), but do grow another of his namesakes, Aloe rauhii, a BEAUTIFUL dwarf aloe that has been in bloom much of the summer on a windowsill...

Title: Re: Puzzle
Post by: Maggi Young on September 18, 2007, 10:57:18 AM

Hans, great link, thank you.

Carlo, you had my hopes rasied for a moment there, "fat-plant people (another group I am quite fond of)"
but now I see I was jumping to the wrong conclusion. :-[ :-\ :-[ :'(