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Title: Androsace
Post by: Palustris on April 10, 2012, 12:36:48 PM

Not found a section for these so I put one in here. And to open it how about this one? Flowering in the  Alpine house, but it grows equally well outside too.
Androsace kosopolanskii

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Post by: ruweiss on April 14, 2012, 10:20:53 PM

Androsace vandellii

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Post by: David Nicholson on April 29, 2012, 06:09:57 PM

My one and only Androsace-Androsace geraniifolia. There will be more eventually.

 

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Post by: Michael J Campbell on April 29, 2012, 06:11:52 PM

Androsace yargongensis

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Post by: Lesley Cox on April 30, 2012, 12:39:48 AM

There's a beautiful plant shown by Mike Ireland in the Northern Hemisphere thread. Would you all have a look at that please. I know it's almost blasphemy to disagree with Franz but.....

I don't think it's sarmentosa, the rosettes are too small.

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Post by: Mike Ireland on April 30, 2012, 09:49:15 PM

Thanks for trying so hard Lesley.

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Post by: astragalus on May 01, 2012, 02:43:43 PM

Is the Androsace yargongensis growing in tufa?  Do you grow it outside?

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Post by: peter hood on May 01, 2012, 03:24:35 PM

Quote from: Lesley Cox on April 30, 2012, 12:39:48 AM

There's a beautiful plant shown by Mike Ireland in the Northern Hemisphere thread. Would you all have a look at that please. I know it's almost blasphemy to disagree with Franz but.....

I don't think it's sarmentosa, the rosettes are too small.

Lesley,
I agree with you that the plant is not A.sempervivoides or A. sarmentosa. My own instictive reaction to the picture is Androsace robusta purpurea but it could be a good form of A. jacquemontii as you suggested.

Mike - I hope that is some use to you

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Post by: wolfgang vorig on May 01, 2012, 05:23:51 PM

Androsace globifera

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Post by: Lesley Cox on May 02, 2012, 05:08:44 AM

I had A. globifera once years ago. The flowers were a strong lilac colour.

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Post by: Mike Ireland on May 02, 2012, 11:27:43 AM

Lesley - Peter

A friend has seen the androsace & thought it may be A. villosa jacquemontii.

A search of Google images shows a number of plant images very similar to mine.

Thanks for your help.

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Post by: Lesley Cox on May 02, 2012, 10:32:56 PM

Well that's good to know Mike. There have been two forms of jacquemontii here in NZ at least a couple of years ago. (I didn't realize it was a var or subsp of villosa). One has deep pink flowers and the other more lavender. They are both lovely plants. Yours is particularly good, both in colour and so well grown and healthy.

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Post by: Mike Ireland on May 03, 2012, 06:05:12 PM

Thanks for the comments Lesley. Looks like mine is the pink form you speak of.

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Post by: SJW on March 10, 2014, 02:50:58 PM

A few months ago in another thread I asked about pricking out Androsace vandellii - SRGC seed was sown last February and 11 had germinated. Michael Campbell kindly advised me to wait until early Spring to move them on, which I've now done. Anyway, this is just a quick question about first flowering. Being more of a bulb man I'm used to waiting a while for that much anticipated first flower so I was pleasantly suprised to see that most of these tiny, one-year-old plants each have a flower. I've not grown Androsace before so I'm curious to know whether precocious flowering is a feature of the genus?   

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Post by: Michael J Campbell on March 10, 2014, 04:51:23 PM

Each tiny little rosette on Androsace will flower especially on Vandeilii ,Pyrenaica, ,Cylindrica, Pubescens, Cylindrica x hirtella and the Hybs of the above,some of the others are not so free flowering in the early stages.

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Post by: SJW on March 11, 2014, 12:15:44 AM

Thanks for the info, Michael.

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Post by: ruweiss on March 17, 2014, 10:01:32 PM

A. hedraeantha, from Bulgarian wild seeds.
A. flavescens, wild seed from Karakorum; big flowers with a fine scent.
A. carnea x pyrenaica, this plant is from a Czech gardener and I am not
sure if this is a valid name. Maybe one of the experts can help me?

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Post by: Lesley Cox on March 29, 2014, 10:17:50 AM

Is there a slight possibility that the seedlings in the pot below are what the label says? They look like a Draba to me. The seed came from the great VH!

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Post by: ruweiss on March 30, 2014, 08:03:04 PM

Flowering now:
Androsace vandelli
A. neuwirthii