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Ledebouria
There are no Ledebouria species native to China.
Show me this link to which you allude. Ledebouria violacea is actually the form of Ledebouria socialis with dark green leaves with purple undersides and should be considered just a cultivar as Ledebouria socialis 'Violacea'. Ledebouria socialis is extremely variable in leaf width and coloring and several different selections of it are now in cultivation. It is one of the few species in the genus with epigeal bulbs. Ledebouria revoluta is the most widespread species in the genus and is found throughout Africa, the Arabian peninsula and India and now has many synonyms. Beverly Erlebacher wrote in message . .. In article , Cereoid-UR12 wrote: Not a Ledebouria. The flowers are not orchid-like and they have all six tepals recurved. More likely its a Lachenalia. Its a big genus with many species and cultivars now in cultivation. Many of the species have maculate leaves. http://www.bulbsociety.com/GALLERY_O...CS/Lachenalia/ L achenalialist.html Thanks for the link. Dunno about Iris's plant, but mine looks very much like Ledebouria revoluta pictured there (click on the image of the raceme to see a bigger pic with leaves). The Lachenalias seem to have much more showy flowers. I'll have to take a magnifying glass to the flowers on my plant tonight! (Replace Lachenalia with Ledebouria in above URL or just browse the site, but wait until you've gotten all your work done first.) http://images.google.com/images?q=la...=en&btnG=Googl e +Search Both genera are primarily African but Ledebouria is also found on Socotra, the Arabian peninsula and in India. According to one of the Ledebouria links, there's even a Chinese species. Also, Ledebouria violacea seems to have been renamed L.socialis, or L.sociaris according to a Japanese site. ;-) |
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Ledebouria
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Cereoid-UR12yo wrote: There are no Ledebouria species native to China. Show me this link to which you allude. I'll take your word for it. It would be biogeographically unlikely, so it's probably one of those misunderstandings based on someone n plant generations ago getting the plant from someone in China. Ledebouria violacea is actually the form of Ledebouria socialis with dark green leaves with purple undersides and should be considered just a cultivar as Ledebouria socialis 'Violacea'. Ledebouria socialis is extremely variable in leaf width and coloring and several different selections of it are now in cultivation. It is one of the few species in the genus with epigeal bulbs. Okay. I guessed that since it was once Scilla violacea, it was L.violacea for a while before it became L.socialis. As all of us are well aware, an obsolete synonym can hang around for decades outside the scientific literature. I'd like to recommend this plant as attractive, unusual, and very easy to grow, even under conditions it doesn't like. Even the etiolated form, growing in a northwest window at 43 degrees N looks pretty good. It also tolerates quite a lot of neglect -- you can forget to water it, and if you don't transplant or divide it, it happily just extends more bulbs right out into the air over the edge of the pot. You can just yank off a handful of these to give away. Ledebouria revoluta is the most widespread species in the genus and is found throughout Africa, the Arabian peninsula and India and now has many synonyms. Does it also have epigeal bulbs? The plant I have seems to. Any advice on cultural requirements? Any refs on this genus and related ones? I had a closer look at the flowers. The three outer tepals are slightly longer than the inner three, and open wider. One pistil, six stamens, superior ovary. Flower buds, ovary and pistil white, everything else green. Altogether far more lily-like than orchid-like, and even less showy than L.socialis. |
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