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Specific Families and Genera => Amaryllidaceae => Topic started by: Ray on January 18, 2012, 07:57:56 AM
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A plant of H humilis "Pink Giant" that I bought a couple of years ago,bye Ray
Haemanthus humilis "Pink Giant"
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Maggi, let's move this to Amaryllidaceae, please?
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Good idea, Jim.... I was so smitten by the pink colour I missed the point!
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Wonderfull Ray, very beautifull !
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Very nice! It is great to see Haemanthus blooming somewhere in the world during our down-season for this genus! My humilis humilis still have their leaves, but they are starting to brown off. Their greenhouse stays at around 45°F unless the sun comes out.
Jim
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Wow, Ray, that's a beauty. Such a good deep pink. I'm definitely jealous!! ;D ;D Doesn't take much. ;)
Here, Haemanthus coccineus is flowering in pots and the open garden. No signs of albiflos yet, but there shouldn't be this early.
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now here in northern hemisphere starting my Haemanthus with flowers ...
Before some weeks i have received from a very friendly person a interesting form of Haemanthus coccineus :
Haemanthus coccineus f. coarcatus
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here is the normal form of H.coccineus - the stem is different to this coarcatus form and also the petals ( they are thin) - the petals of coarcatus are very thick
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here is a comparison from the H.coarcatus with a other H.coccineus form ( small flowers )
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Haemanthus (coccineus x barkerae) and the reverse are blooming all together this year. This is H. (barkerae x coccineus) #2109.B with a somewhat unusual flower.
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Haemanthus barkerae #2219.C, grown from seed from Silverhill Seeds. The flowers open while the peduncle is still short, but it continues to lengthen.
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I have a lot of Haemanthus coccineus, but this one is the most striking. The flower always looks like two spikes had been fused together, and it sometimes produces another spike soon after the first. Seeds ex Richtersveld, from Silverhill Seeds in ca. 1997.
Jim
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here is flowering a other of this older H.coccineus forms :
Haemanthus incarnatus
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Really nice, mine are just coming into flower :)
Angie :)
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Wonderful plants Hans and Jim!
I try to upload some pictures the next days
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Kind regards
Bernie
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Hello forum,
after a long time without showing pictures here are some from me.
First some leaves only.
amarylloides ssp. polyanthus Kamieskroon
amarylloides ssp. amarylloides Viskuil
barkerae Calvinia
barkerae Nieuwoudtville
coccineus Darling Giant
coccineus Dwarf Port Elizabeth
coccineus Dwarf Port Elizabeth2
coccineus Spoegrivier Giant
crispus ordinary versus Giant
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some more
dasyphyllus
graniticus
humilis ssp. hirsutus Klipspringer Diamond Mine
humilis ssp. humilis King William´s Town Dwarf
namaquensis Kourkammaberge
namaquensis Springbok
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...nearly since 2 years i wait for a sign of life...fortunately now 3 of my 4 humilis ssp. humilis dwarf Grahamstown start their growth
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Large photos for an average screen Bernie, but what great detail in them! Fascinating to see the detail in these sharp photos - just the sort of degree of detail that some folks might never realise is there on their plants!
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Haemanthus humilis var. humilis "The Giant"
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and some flowers:
humilis ssp. humilis Hanover
x clarkei
coccineus Giant Colchester
humilis ssp. hirsutus Mooi River
namaquensis Narapberg
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Oh sorry!!! Now i realise that the pictures are maybe really to big!
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Should i resize them that they are smaller?
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simply fantastic Bernie !!!
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The sharpness and detail is worth leaving these at that size, Bernie - but perhaps in future it would be better to make them around 780 x 600 pixels ;)
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Heamanthus cocineus 'Gifberg'
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Here one of my Haemanthus albiflos x coccineus, I used a broadleaf form of albiflos, which flowers in September instead of November - Dicember like the other albiflos plants I grow and the coccineus mother in the second photo. I have not well understood which hybrid is correctly named H. x clarkei, I see many of you posting photos of a deciduous plant which grows like coccineus, but mine are all evergreen, holding 2 pairs of leaves, growing like any albiflos. Leaves are quite big also, but a few individuals have more round and short leaves and I will probably select them among the others.
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Angelo,
I grow one of these crosses as well, and mine looks more like a pink albiflos in shaping. I wish mine had more of the shape of coccineus to it, but I'm just happy to have a pink Haemanthus. ;D
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Still Haemanthus season here, with sanguineus which enjoys a full sun spot in the ground and a broadleaf form of albiflos, a bit pale for too much sun ! This one flowers several weeks before the other albiflos I grow
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That is a beautiful albiflos, Angelo. So very different to the ones I grow here. The leaves almost look large enough to be coccineus. ;D Good sized flowerheads too by the look of it. Well done.
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here some pics from my H.albiflos ( we had a little sun today )
First is my oldest H.albiflos ( received 1997 )- in this year now with 16 flowers !!!
next is now my own cross from this year ( H. albiflos X H.incarnatus )...I hope for nice flower in few years
Like Angelo says - H.albiflos have a lot different clones which flowering in different times
the first start middle - end of September ,than now this big group ....and in the greenhouse are more which have just buds
Hans
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Hans that fantastic 8), can't wait till the day I have loads of flowers on my H. albiflos like you have.
Angie :)
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You people have some very desirable plants
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I have 2 different clones of albiflos. One that is apparently indestructable and is very easy to grow and flower. Looks very much like the photo above. The other flowers later and has wider leaves, twice the length. Unfortunately they both flower around the same time as I cram my frost free greenhouse with a lot of other plants for the winter, and the humidity goes sky high, and the flowers end up covered in fungus as they go over. Never had seed form fully, just too damp to stay healthy.
By chance I kept a stray small bulb of one of these forms over last winter in the unheated greenhouse, just by the door so will have been frosted several times. Came through fine with no damage, so maybe they are tougher than I thought.
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if anybody is interestet to swap with me seeds of Haemanthus coccineus please look here :
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9716.0 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9716.0)
Hans
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Haemanthus albiflos are now finished up for the year, but one seedling bulb of Haemanthus deformis is now in bloom. The seeds were planted in May, 2008, so this one is 4.5 years old.
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Also starting to bloom just now are the Haemanthus pauculifolius.
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This one originated in Vryheid, as the tag notes.
Jim
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Jim you should change that pot of H. deformis, otherwise the leaves will be deformed.
Try to get a kind of Italian terracotta handmade oval pot designed for Haemanthus ;D
Back to Haemanthus hybrids, with my great surprise one of my albiflos x coccinues has set 8 seeds pollinated with coccineus pollen !
None of the others did, nor a sanguineus pollinated with that hybrid pollen too. So I wish I am going to the right way to achieve a 'red' albiflos :)
Forgot to add the seeds are purple, quite curious thinking that the plants come from albiflos as mother plant.