Re: Large leaf plants
- Subject: Re: Large leaf plants
- From: Jason D j*@yahoo.com
- Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 15:28:25 -0800 (PST)
Of course there are all those exquisite Hawaiian
Lobelioids (Delissea, Cyanea, Rollandia, Clermontia
Lobelia, Trematolobelia and Brighamia)... probably a
few of which are adaptable to irrigated, humid, mild
gardens, but most endangered or extinct. I've seen
Brighamia at UCLA, in Los Angeles, as well as in
streetside gardens in Waikiki (dry and warm). Some
genera are adapted to drier high- or low-altitude
habitats (otherwise, many are mid-altitude rainforest
plants).
http://emedia.leeward.hawaii.edu/millen/bot130/learning_objectives/lo26/PICTUREPAGE.26.HTML
http://www.amjbot.org/cgi/content/full/88/7/1301
(scroll down to "Discussion")
-Jason Dewees
San Francisco
(Going to Hawaii in three weeks!)
--- Diane Whitehead <voltaire@islandnet.com> wrote:
> I grew Lobelia keniensis, from seed John Grimshaw
> collected on
> Mt.Kenya, for a few years. He was impressed when he
> saw it here, as
> I don't think he expected it to grow here. (I didn't
> ask him where he
> had expected Alpine Garden Society members to grow
> it.)
>
> Got it up to a 5 gallon pot, but a very cold winter
> (-11C did it in).
> I should have had it protected better than just
> sitting on a bench in
> a hoophouse when an Arctic outflow blew the door
> open. Or I
> shouldn't have been so cowardly as not to go out in
> the storm to
> close the door.
>
> There are giant lobelias scattered throughout the
> world, and I had a
> plan to grow them all. I think I had better stick
> to the
> medium-sized ones. Tupa does well here.
>
> --
> Diane Whitehead Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
> maritime zone 8
> cool mediterranean climate (dry summer, rainy winter
> - 68 cm annually)
> sandy soil
>
>
