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08-06-2010, 02:29 PM
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Nice Ken!
Here's a very worth form of the summer growing B. disticha from Northern Namibia, with 3" wide leaves. T 
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08-06-2010, 02:45 PM
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VERY VERY nice, Tim! Save me some pollen when it blooms ... or better yet, some seeds! I thought most summer growing Boophones had wavy leaves, but apparently not. Northern Namibia? Does it receive any summer H2O? I have been providing periodic/limited water to those of mine which appear to be summer growers. Would that be your advice?
Here's a shot of some not-quite 3-year old seedlings I have in the ground:
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08-06-2010, 04:13 PM
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It only gets summer rainfall up there, when it gets any. I haven't seen any flowers - could always be a new species of course
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08-10-2010, 02:42 PM
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hybrid Boophone X Amarygia seed?
On one of 3 other Boophone disticha bulbs which bloomed for me in July this year, I used 2-yr old frozen/saved pollen from a 2008 white X Amarygia bloom. Several of the 'fruits' have begun to split, revealing white/opalescent seeds. In the past, I've only seen Boophone disticha seeds that are green or greenish-yellow. While this inflorescence/infructescence is the same age as those of its neighboring 2 bulbs, its fruit seems to have grown larger and developed more quickly than the others, on which I used Boophone disticha pollen. I don't think these are quite 'ready' yet as the fruit skin has not turned papery yet, as is usually the case with Boophone. The pic of the white flowering X Amarygia is the pollen parent. Seeds it produced (by selfing) that year were pure white also.
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08-07-2011, 01:39 AM
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I KNOW they are common ... but ...
Still, I really like the foliage. A couple groupings of not quite 4 year old Boophone disticha bulbs grown from seed. I wish I had been more careful to plant them so that the distichous foliage of each bulb was more or less parallel to each other.
Last edited by amarguy; 08-07-2011 at 01:41 AM. Reason: add comment
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08-07-2011, 03:09 PM
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Here are a couple of pictures of the plant I showed earlier in the thread, in flower. In addition to having quite dark-colored flowers, the seed head is much larger than any others of this species I have seen.
T
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08-08-2011, 07:50 PM
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Tim's Boophone
Very impressive, Tim! I like both the wide leaves and the richer coloration in the blooms. Did you play bumblebee? Did you have another Boophone in bloom or had you saved pollen from a previous bloom?
Ken
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08-08-2011, 10:20 PM
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There were a couple of other Boophone flowering, but winter growers, and not particularly nice ones. I'll wait until I have a couple from the same place in flower.
I did try crosses with Ammocharis and Crinum, and seem to have some seed on all three. T
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