Re: Haemanthus sanguineus.
Michael Barclay wrote:
I've had my confidence shaken over this genus. Roger Raiche who couldn't
grow H. albiflos in Berkeley succeeded with a short leaved red and gave
me one under the name H. coccineus. It has proved hardy, vigorous and
is now a
substantial clump of very long leaves when in leaf. This fall it has a clump
of four inflorescences. When Dr. Fred Coe saw it he said it was definitely
sanguineus, not coccineus and he had a friend growing nine species in a
relatively frost free section of Marin.
So who knows? Ask Flora.
Glenn Breayley wrote:
>
> >>
> >> I'm temproaqrily off my main computer and I don't have any recent
> >>addresses or correspondence on this one. So, would you please forwrd this
> >>for me? The Haemanthus is not albiflos, but it may be Haemanthus
> coccineus
> >>which is red. It also has a kind of golden shaving brush in the middle.
> >>Does this describe her plant? ----Chas----
>
> Chas
> Yours definitely sounds like H. coccineus. Theres 21 Haemanthus species,
> with most of them being red, but the H.coccineus is the most common & the
> only one I've ever seen in cultivation. Its from the winter rain region &
> deciduous.
> The albiflos is definitely white flowered. I also have a couple of H
> deformis, which is from Natal & the other evergreen species. Very closely
> allied to H albiflos but consistently depauperate, so the flower appears
> sessile. H albiflos has a long flower stalk.
>
> Regards
>
> Glenn Breayley. Ragnarok & Valhalla Research.
> POBox 26158, Hout Bay, 7872, Capetown, South Africa
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