Plant ID wanted-- little information

[Darren Garrison]

A friend in Tokyo recently sent me a batch of seeds, and included a few bulblets
from a plant at first he called a lily, but then said he doesn't know the name
of. The bulblets are green, about the size of a dime, and it is hard to tell
the top from the bottom. He told me to plant them on the surface of moist soil,
but not push them in or cover them. He sent this photo of the mother plant,
with various sizes of smaller plants around it, including some of the green
bulblets.

http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/tmp/MVC-008S.JPG

ANY ideas?

[Darren Garrison]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:51:26 +0100, Janet Baraclough
> wrote:


>> http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/tmp/MVC-008S.JPG
>
>> ANY ideas?
>
> Looks like some kind of tropical orchid. Does he grow it indoors or out?

Outside. He told me:

"The bulblets might do best in a pot that can be
shaded during the hot part of the day and during
winter bring indoors or on the porch; they survive
Tokyo winters..."

[Kay Lancaster]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:37:33 -0400, Darren Garrison > wrote:
> A friend in Tokyo recently sent me a batch of seeds, and included a few bulblets
> from a plant at first he called a lily, but then said he doesn't know the name
> of. The bulblets are green, about the size of a dime, and it is hard to tell
> the top from the bottom. He told me to plant them on the surface of moist soil,
> but not push them in or cover them. He sent this photo of the mother plant,
> with various sizes of smaller plants around it, including some of the green
> bulblets.
>
> http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/tmp/MVC-008S.JPG

Reminds me of one of the Bulbophyllum orchids.

You did have the proper import permits for this, right?
And your friend had the export permits?

Kay

[Darren Garrison]

On 1 Aug 2007 02:42:04 GMT, Kay Lancaster > wrote:

>> http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/tmp/MVC-008S.JPG
>
>Reminds me of one of the Bulbophyllum orchids.
>
>You did have the proper import permits for this, right?
>And your friend had the export permits?

No. Should I need them? For a houseplant? Didn't have them for the Ginkgo,
Yuzu, or Persimmon seeds he sent either. Or one other Japanese plant he sent, I
think he called it "kudzu"? I didn't need those, so I just sprinkled them
around in the woods.

[Kay Lancaster]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:15:02 -0400, Darren Garrison > wrote:
> On 1 Aug 2007 02:42:04 GMT, Kay Lancaster > wrote:
>
>>> http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/tmp/MVC-008S.JPG
>>
>>Reminds me of one of the Bulbophyllum orchids.
>>
>>You did have the proper import permits for this, right?
>>And your friend had the export permits?
>
> No. Should I need them? For a houseplant? Didn't have them for the Ginkgo,
> Yuzu, or Persimmon seeds he sent either. Or one other Japanese plant he sent, I
> think he called it "kudzu"? I didn't need those, so I just sprinkled them
> around in the woods.

Yes, you do need them. And a CITES permit, too, if it's an orchid.
The regulations are there to help prevent accidental import of diseases,
insects, and other pests, and to help with endangered species.

http://www.aphis.usda.gov/import_export/plants/plant_imports/index.shtml
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/plant_health/permits/plantproducts.shtml

Accidentally introducing a pest by casual imports of un-inspected goods
can be biologically and economically devastating. Asian longhorn beetle,
Dutch Elm disease, Striga asiatica, Medfly... they were all accidental
introductions.

>

[Seahag]

"Kay Lancaster" > wrote:
> Darren Garrison > wrote:
>> Kay Lancaster > wrote:
>>
>>>> http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/tmp/MVC-008S.JPG
>>>
>>>Reminds me of one of the Bulbophyllum orchids.
>>>
>>>You did have the proper import permits for this, right?
>>>And your friend had the export permits?
>>
>> No. Should I need them? For a houseplant? Didn't have
>> them for the Ginkgo,
>> Yuzu, or Persimmon seeds he sent either. Or one other
>> Japanese plant he sent, I
>> think he called it "kudzu"? I didn't need those, so I
>> just sprinkled them
>> around in the woods.
>
> Yes, you do need them. And a CITES permit, too, if it's
> an orchid.
> The regulations are there to help prevent accidental
> import of diseases,
> insects, and other pests, and to help with endangered
> species.
>
> http://www.aphis.usda.gov/import_export/plants/plant_imports/index.shtml
> http://www.aphis.usda.gov/plant_health/permits/plantproducts.shtml
>
> Accidentally introducing a pest by casual imports of
> un-inspected goods
> can be biologically and economically devastating. Asian
> longhorn beetle,
> Dutch Elm disease, Striga asiatica, Medfly... they were
> all accidental
> introductions.

Just wait until that Kudzu takes over the woods.

Seahag

[Darren Garrison]

>> http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/tmp/MVC-008S.JPG

Someone in the sci.bio.botany group had the answer for me:

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Ornithogalum+caudatum&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Ornithogalum+caudatum&um=1&sa=N&tab=iw

[Garrapata]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:37:33 -0400, Darren Garrison
> wrote:

>A friend in Tokyo recently sent me a batch of seeds, and included a few bulblets
>from a plant at first he called a lily, but then said he doesn't know the name
>of. The bulblets are green, about the size of a dime, and it is hard to tell
>the top from the bottom. He told me to plant them on the surface of moist soil,
>but not push them in or cover them. He sent this photo of the mother plant,
>with various sizes of smaller plants around it, including some of the green
>bulblets.
>
>http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/tmp/MVC-008S.JPG
>
>ANY ideas?

Ornithogalum caudatum

http://www.botany.wisc.edu/greenhouse/Roomtwo-Or.html
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