A curious Ammocharis

[Tim Harvey]

This plant of A. coranica flowers reliably every year. This year it has produced three flower spikes as opposed to the more usual two. Also strange is that they are all from the same side of the bulb - normally the emerge opposite each other.

T

[jshields]

I have a bulb of Ammocharis coranica from George Mann in South Africa that blooms every year, and sometimes repeats once or twice. It is growing in a 2-gal. pot and spends the winters under a bench in the cool greenhouse, bone dry.

I have several seedling bulbs of Ammocharis coranica that have never bloomed for me so far. A couple of them are even in 2-gal. pots.

I wonder how much variation there is in floriferousness among Ammocharis clones?

Jim Shields
Westfield, Indiana
USA

[Tim Harvey]

That was a seedling from Aridlands a few years ago. The seedlings from it seem very slow in pots for me, but they all survive winter rain here without any problem.

T

Originally Posted by jshields

I have a bulb of Ammocharis coranica from George Mann in South Africa that blooms every year, and sometimes repeats once or twice. It is growing in a 2-gal. pot and spends the winters under a bench in the cool greenhouse, bone dry.

I have several seedling bulbs of Ammocharis coranica that have never bloomed for me so far. A couple of them are even in 2-gal. pots.

I wonder how much variation there is in floriferousness among Ammocharis clones?

Jim Shields
Westfield, Indiana
USA