Re: Plants, probably not mediterranean,(Delostoma)
- Subject: Re: Plants, probably not mediterranean,(Delostoma)
- From: d* f*
- Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 10:53:22 -0800 (PST)
John,
Thanks for the great read on hummingbirds! Do you
know if D. lobbii is grown much in so Cal. bedsides at
the UCLA gardens? I haven't seen this one around, but
do grow D. rosea, which looks more like an avocado
tree when not in bloom, (but much smaller tree), and
has deep purple flowers very much like Distictis
'Rivers', and loaded with flowers when in bloom. My
small tree seems to grow quite happily here in
Berkeley, although the foliage did get singed a little
at 29F in January. I resolve to fertilize it more
regularly to see if this is the reason that it has
been a shy bloomer to date.
Don't know if this is also attractive to hummingbirds,
but it ought to be more popular as an attractive small
flowering tree for coastal California, and the plant
at Steve Brigham's nursery in San Marcos is gorgeous
in bloom, which he says it can be for 9 months out of
the year. I think this is also grown at the
Huntington.
Re: not mediterranean related, parts of Ecuador are
very similar to the foggy and mild coastal parts of
the SF Bay Area. So much so, that both UC Berkeley
and Strybing Arboretum has specialized in high montane
tropical cloud forest species form the Andes, Central
America and Asia. Alot of species at both grow much
better here than in warmer and drier southern
California.
--- John MacGregor <jonivy@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Sue McNeill wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know how big Delostoma lobbii gets. I
> couldn't find it in
> > any of my plant books and after searching the
> internet I discovered it
> > was a tree, loved by hummingbirds, but no
> indication of its ultimate size.
>
> Sue,
>
> The Quechua name for Delostoma lobbii is "pichus".
> This brief squib says it
> is a shrub or tree 2-6 meters high, growing in
> Andean valleys of southern
> Ecuador and Peru at an altitude of 1500-3000 meters:
>
> http://www.sacha.org/famil/a_to_m/bignoni.htm
>
> Here is another picture of the blossom:
>
>
http://www.botgard.ucla.edu/html/MEMBGNewsletter/Volume3number3/b0530tx.html
>
> here is still another good shot of the flowers:
>
>
http://mobot.mobot.org/cgi-bin/search_vast?w3till=MOA-00910_001.jpg
> John MacGregor
> South Pasadena, CA 91030
> USDA zone 9 Sunset zones 21/23
>
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