Re: Nothoscordum inodorum and aliases

Diane Whitehead wrote:
> 
> A friend who collects bulbs grew this several years ago from seed
> distributed by the North American Rock Garden Society seed exchange.
> He is still digging out the occasional bit of it - it goes into the
> garbage and he pours a kettleful of boiling water in the hole.
> 
> It was labelled as a rare Leucojum that he had had on his want list
> for a long time.  I notice he keeps all his new bulb acquisitions in
> pots now, on a concrete driveway, at least until they flower and
> reveal themselves.
> 
Diane 
That can be a major problem with seed from such sources. One is
extremely dependent on the knowledge and efficiency of the doners. And
it really pays to treat all new acquisitions with suspicion.

I carefully raised what I thought was Nectaroscordium siculum a few
years ago only to find I had been gifted with a rather nondescript
Crinum, which is much too large for the site I had chosen and will have
to be moved. At least I didn't get any sort of horrifying weed, thank
goodness.

And in passing, you might like to add a name to your list of aliases.
The lady in whose garden I once encountered the Nothoscordium always
referred to it as the toad or toad plant (evidently the nastiest epithet
in her vocabulary!)

Moira
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Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata, New Zealand, SW Pacific. 12 hours ahead of Greenwich Time
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