Lobelias from the Mountains of the Moon
- Subject: Lobelias from the Mountains of the Moon
- From: &* <a*@iol.ie>
- Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 23:52:55 GMT
I'm reading Patrick M.Synge's book 'In Search of Flowers' in which he
describes his trip to the East African Equitorial Mountains in the 1930s.He
has wonderful photographs and descriptions of Lobelia bequaertii..'one
rosette.. would be several feet across and would have several hundred
closely packed leaves, shining purple..when this lobelia flowered it threw
up a stiff green obelisk-like spike, six feet high and nearly a foot in
diameter,monstrous and bizarre'.L.elgonensis and L.wollastonii sound equally
desirable.
He writes that thirty years later he saw some of these species of lobelia
growing very well in the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.Can any
MEDIT-members from that area tell me if they are still there, thirty years
further on,and if any seed company supplies seed?
Jane
(Ireland)
