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Originally Posted by Allen Repashy
I have slowly been building a collection of B. disticha, and B heamanthoides. I understand that B. disticha ranges from Nabia.. down the to the Cape... and then back up to Mozambique. I have forms that are clearly summer growers, winter growers, and some that are evergreen. There are flat leafs, twisted leaf's, narrow leaf's... fat leaf's.... some flower color differences.
So my question is.... What actually differentiates B. disticha from B. heamanthoides.... What makes heamanthoides something other than just a winter growing disticha.....
One thing I can think of is that I believe disticha does not offset....Is the flower structure different? Any experts out there that can shed some light on this?
Allen
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That is a difficult question (though let's agree on BoophOne!).
B. haemanthoides is very similar to ernestii-ruschii which has a drab yellowish flower and so might be differentiable on that characteristic. Offsetting, as you said, seems to be the domain of haemanthoides, though I am sure a few multi-headed B. disticha can be found. The original description of haemanthoides is likely to shed light on this - I have read it but with other questions in my head related to B. e-r.
Of course, one can not draw any conclusions from plants/bulbs offered in the trade in the US ;-)
T