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Oron Peri

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Re: Romulea species
« Reply #60 on: February 13, 2009, 04:08:21 PM »
David, they are... despite the miniature size you can not miss them because of the shiny strong color.

This morning I went to visit a large colony of R. bulbocodium in search for interesting colors.
Here are some results that might become good cultivars, the pink form is a real surprise....
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Re: Romulea species
« Reply #61 on: February 13, 2009, 07:07:33 PM »
If the pink was to be consistent it would be a rare colour break.
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Re: Romulea species
« Reply #62 on: February 17, 2009, 06:48:12 PM »
Here is my first Romulea of the season (a generous gift last year from Michael Campbell) R. linaresii and is, I think, ssp graeca. Sorry about the leaves crossing the face of the flower, I did have them neatly pegged back, until I pressed the shutter that is!





 
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Re: Romulea species Flowering indoors
« Reply #63 on: February 19, 2009, 12:39:54 PM »
Hi there,
Nice to see a thread for Romulea, thought I'd post these 2009 pics and hope to have pics of R.tetragona later. Some confusion here for me, not sure if one of them, photo named grandiscarpa, is grandiscapa or zahnii, and another ( roms3 ) I have no idea about, help!
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r.bulbocodium
 r.bulbocodium_crocea
 r.grandiscarpa.
 roms3
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Re: Romulea species
« Reply #64 on: February 24, 2009, 12:42:34 PM »
Another little star is in flower today:
Romulea rolii  [syn. R. columnae ssp rolii] originaly from Chios.
this little species differs from R. columnae by being more colorfull and by its much longer leaves. [up to 30cm]

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Re: Romulea species
« Reply #65 on: February 26, 2009, 05:00:10 PM »
Today I went for a short visit at another R. columnae site.
I have found this ssp. a few years ago together with some friends at the north part of the Golan Heights in the same place where Cyclamen coum G.H. was found.
At the beginning we have found only a few plants and thought it to be extremely rare, but than i found out that by the end of February for about two weeks there are hundreds of thousends in bloom.
This subspecies is very colorfull heaving sword like, short leaves.

This is a unique colony in terms of altitude, 1150m, generally Romulea in the Mediterranan are low altitudes or coastal plants.

Attached Photos of the Habitat with Mt. Hermon covered with snow at the back.

I wasn't the only one to enjoy the Romulea as you can see...
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Re: Romulea species
« Reply #66 on: February 26, 2009, 07:06:48 PM »
terrific pictures! :o it rememer me many places in Spain with this sight of Romuleas and goats, very friendly ones! Although they eat everything I can't hate them and It is a very friendly animal to me. We have in Spain the following romulea species:

Romulea bulbocodium (L.) Seb. et Mauri
Romulea columnae Seb. et Mauri
subsp. columnae
subsp. asumptionis
Romulea clusiana (Lange) Nyman
Romulea ramiflora Ten
subsp. ramiflora
subsp. gaditana (kunze) Marais
Romulea uliginosa Kunze syn Romulea bulbocodium
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Re: Romulea species
« Reply #67 on: February 26, 2009, 07:10:03 PM »
Rafa, do you have by chance a photo of the last two you have mentioned?
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Re: Romulea species
« Reply #68 on: February 26, 2009, 07:21:02 PM »
No, I haven't... this species is not far from my village, 30 minutes or so and I will try to locate it. For many people is not valid species....
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Re: Romulea species
« Reply #69 on: February 26, 2009, 08:03:33 PM »
Lovely Oron, for such little flowers they have a great deal of class.
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Re: Romulea species
« Reply #70 on: February 26, 2009, 08:13:23 PM »
That's the Golan Heights? Funny that one can get a totally erroneous picture in one's mind. I had imagined desert, and pretty stark desert at that. ???
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Re: Romulea species
« Reply #71 on: February 26, 2009, 09:40:51 PM »
Rafa,
what conditions does Romulea bulbocodium grow in in Spain, please ? I mean how cold in winter and how dry in summer etc.
I have some plants from seeds that I got from the Göteborg botanical garden a few years ago. The have survived three winters now but have not yet flowered. Maybe this year ...


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Re: Romulea species
« Reply #72 on: February 26, 2009, 09:43:37 PM »
Oh, and very nice pictures Oron. Like Leslie I would have imagined that the Golan Heights were a more arid and hostile place

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Re: Romulea species
« Reply #73 on: February 26, 2009, 10:50:39 PM »
This species is absolutely hardy, more than -15, thanks to the depth where the bulbs are placed, arround 7cm and It also grows in wet meadows, so most of the year the bulbs are in mosit or wet conditions. Just from late June to late September it is completely dry. These are the conditions for many iberic species...

I will collect seeds to send you of this species, it is very common.
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Re: Romulea species
« Reply #74 on: February 27, 2009, 09:05:56 PM »
That´s very good of you Rafa.
I have actually kept my seedlings completely dry during summers and maybe that´s why the bulbs haven´t increased much in size. I´ll try to give them a bit more moist during the first half of summer.

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