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« Reply #15 on: December 22, 2011, 12:45:36 AM »
Quote from: bulborum on December 21, 2011, 10:19:47 AM

Yes Hoy

over 70 different Nerines sarniensis
just to see how they grow
I have a few more pictures from the man where I bought them
I will post them later

The Gladiolus watsonioides seeds where sold out
next year a new change
Where did you take the picture from the Gladiolus watsonioides

Roland

The picture of G. watsonioides is taken on Mount Kenya in Kenya and th Scadoxus picture is taken on Mount Meru in Tanzania.

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« Reply #16 on: December 22, 2011, 01:20:17 AM »
Unbelievable that there can grow plants there
I am always astonished when I see places like this

Fantastic Picture

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« Reply #17 on: December 22, 2011, 12:16:54 PM »

I have only seen a photo of Gladiolus orchidiflorus once before, and I wondered if a glad flower could really look that cool.  Now that I see your picture, Roland, I know the first photo was not a trick!

All really neat plants.  That Massonia looks so tiny. How small is it?
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« Reply #18 on: December 22, 2011, 12:24:22 PM »
Quote from: RickR on December 22, 2011, 12:16:54 PM

That Massonia looks so tiny. How small is it?

Its only a few cm high

The seeds aren't germinated
but in a few years I hope to post my own pictures
as far as I know it just recently got the name Massonia wittebergensis
I think there are a lot of unknown species in Africa

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« Reply #19 on: January 02, 2012, 02:37:38 PM »
And as cream on the cake
today arrived 30 seeds from Gladiolus kamiesbergensis

Picture taken away
to complicated to show

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« Reply #20 on: January 03, 2012, 09:08:06 AM »
Understandable but you seems to be hit hard, Roland Wink

Some lovely gladioli there!
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« Reply #21 on: January 03, 2012, 09:15:41 AM »
I loved always the African bulbs
but was never able to grow them
Now I have a few poly-tunnels
which I can keep almost free of frost
this gives me lots of possibilities

I think it's a good investment
Lots of fun seeing seedlings growing

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« Reply #22 on: January 03, 2012, 11:00:09 AM »
Beautiful bulbs, Roland!

The Massonia wittebergensis looks very similar to Massonia echinata which is found in Lesotho above 2700 m. Could the one be a synonym of the other? I've never seen it in flower but have some seedlings and a few mature bulbs which will hopefully flower this summer. If you're interested I can check my seed fridge for excess seed.
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« Reply #23 on: January 03, 2012, 12:08:36 PM »
Hello Jenny

It is possible that they are the same
as far as I know this Massonia wittebergensis
got last year a name
before it was marked as unknown Massonia specie's
seen on the picture in Eastern Cape tour February 2009

there are many collections wrong named
simple because there isn't so much knowledge (same for me)

I would love to swap some seeds

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« Reply #24 on: January 03, 2012, 02:57:19 PM »
Hi Roland, I'll mail you a list of bulb seed tomorrow. I don't have a great variety of rare bulbs but I do have some choice ones from the Lesotho Highlands, a number of which would also occur in the Witteberg Mountains of the Eastern Cape.

There is a photo of M. echinata in Elsa Pooleys book "Mountain Flowers. A Field Guide to the Flora of the Drakensberg and Lesotho." (Published in 2003) I'll post a photo from the book tomorrow.

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« Reply #25 on: January 03, 2012, 03:13:46 PM »
Fantastic Jenny

Here a picture from the Massonia echinata I have

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« Reply #26 on: January 06, 2012, 04:35:49 AM »
Well, I've finally managed to take a passable photo of what I always thought was Massonia echinata as pictured in Elsa Pooleys book.
  
  

But having looked at your photo of M. echinata, Roland, and checking in Goldblatt, Manning and Snijmans book (The colour encyclopedia of Cape Bulbs) I have to agree that the plant I know from the Lesotho Drakensberg is not echinata but M. wittebergensis.

It's definitely very special!
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« Reply #27 on: January 06, 2012, 05:45:05 AM »
M. wittebergensis is stunning

The text isn't readable
Maybe you can try to resize the text with Tiny Pick (German and English)
see: http://www.efpage.de/eTinypic.html
as far as I know one of the best free resizing program
compared for the details

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« Reply #28 on: January 06, 2012, 07:23:57 AM »
Quote from: bulborum on January 06, 2012, 05:45:05 AM
M. wittebergensis is stunning

The text isn't readable
Maybe you can try to resize the text with Tiny Pick (German and English)
see: http://www.efpage.de/eTinypic.html
as far as I know one of the best free resizing program
compared for the details

Roland


Roland, the text is perfectly legible (readable), when you click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it.
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« Reply #29 on: January 06, 2012, 08:15:30 AM »
I found that out later Mark
I tried it but the site didn't respond for the second picture
it did (not fast)with the first picture
just about 10 minutes later it suddenly popped up
No idea why it reacted so late

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