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fermi de Sousa

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March 2017 in the Southern Hemisphere
« on: February 28, 2017, 01:59:48 PM »
I was going to say that this is Potentilla fruticosa "La La Land"  :o
but it is in fact 'Moonlight'!
Call it a Warren Beatty moment!
 ;D
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Re: March 2017 in the Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2017, 02:32:31 PM »
 ;D ;D
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Re: March 2017 in the Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2017, 08:47:59 PM »
Lovely plant Fermi-, dreadful photographs!  ;D
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Re: March 2017 in the Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2017, 08:18:55 PM »
snapped these while walking up at Mount Lofty the other day. Antarctica?! Wow..  :o
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Re: March 2017 in the Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2017, 09:23:12 PM »
Fermi how tall is your Potentilla 'moonlight' ? The foliage looks beautiful, like most Potentilla.
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Re: March 2017 in the Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2017, 12:09:34 PM »
It’s Amaryllis season in Adelaide and my budding collection is in bloom. Jamus (the forum’s Jupiter) kindly visited to lend his superb photography skills.
I’ve posted in detail in the Amaryllids section, http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=15120.0
And will avoid duplication… but here’s a taste of Jamus’ photography… I suspect from the coloring that this is the clone that was written about as Appleblossom in the 1900s.
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Re: March 2017 in the Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #6 on: March 07, 2017, 09:47:56 AM »
Quote from: Jupiter on March 05, 2017, 08:18:55 PM
snapped these while walking up at Mount Lofty the other day. Antarctica?! Wow..  :o

It looks like Azorella trifurcata to me (and Azorella no longer belongs to the Hydrocotyloidae family) so Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens need to print some new labels
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Re: March 2017 in the Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #7 on: March 07, 2017, 10:13:32 AM »
...Again very well observed, David. ;D
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Re: March 2017 in the Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #8 on: March 07, 2017, 10:35:15 AM »
David I'm not surprised! There are lots of errors in the labeling there. I've discovered discrepancies myself. Thanks for the updated info.
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Re: March 2017 in the Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #9 on: March 09, 2017, 12:35:12 AM »
Colchicum variegatum flowering for the first time for me from Marcus Harvey's 2012 seed catalogue. Seed collected in Ambelos, Samos, Greece 1000m. I actually had this labelled as Colchicum hungaricum so there must have been a mix up. A pleasant surprise none the less.

P.S. Happy birthday Otto!  ;D
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Re: March 2017 in the Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #10 on: March 09, 2017, 12:36:40 PM »
Wishing Otto all the very best of birthday wishes  - many happy returns of the day!

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Re: March 2017 in the Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #11 on: March 09, 2017, 12:55:51 PM »
Happy Birthday Otto.
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Re: March 2017 in the Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #12 on: March 09, 2017, 02:17:58 PM »
Happy Birthday, Otto,
sorry that we won't be at Ferny Creek this weekend,
cheers
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Re: March 2017 in the Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #13 on: March 09, 2017, 11:16:23 PM »
Sincere thanks to all for your warm Birthday Wishes . Maggi you are a gifted cake decorator if that cake is your work ?
A most welcome present for my birthday was Janis Ruksan's beautiful and scholarly new Crocus Monograph . It only took 6 days from Latvia to Melbourne . So many newly described and handsome species . The first one I had to look up was Crocus fauseri . I am still amazed and sad that so far Crocus ruksani has not been described . Janis certainly deserves to have a species named for him ,after devoting a life time to this genus .
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Re: March 2017 in the Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #14 on: March 09, 2017, 11:26:25 PM »
Jon  , I am not sure that your Colchicum  is C. variegatum . The true one has narrower , pointed sepals and when fully open more like a flattish star - but please prove me wrong .
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