Re: Moschosma (Iboza riparia)

No, Bill, it looks nothing like a hosta...
Hal

>From: Blee811@aol.com
>Reply-To: perennials@mallorn.com
>To: perennials@mallorn.com
>Subject: Re: Moschosma (Iboza riparia)
>Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 09:20:06 EDT
>
>In a message dated 5/16/99 2:52:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>hghumbert@hotmail.com writes:
>
><< And while you guys are at it 'fess up-you've bought plants with the same
>  blind enthusiasm,haven't you? >>
>Hal, I don't know what yhour mystery plant is.  Until the latter part of 
>the
>description I wondered if it was the variegated leaf brunnera.  Does it 
>look
>something like a hosta?
>
>I bought a plant at a nursery last year that no one there could tell me 
>what
>it was.  The tag simply said "perennial".  They thought it might be a
>flowering tobacco but I knew better.  It had fire engine red tubular 
>flowers,
>something like the lipstick plant, in a ring at the top of its stems.  The
>leaves are yeart-shaped and slightly fuzzy.  Certainly not a nicotiana!
>
>I took it home and went I planted it out I saw that it was a corm, round 
>and
>orange.  After much searching I discovered it was a syninga rechsteineria.
>It's a beauty and I dug the corm in the late fall, stored it, and it is now
>in bloom for the second year.  This same nursery does not have anything 
>like
>it this year.
>
>So hang in there.  After it flowers perhaps you'll find it pictured 
>somewhere.
>
>Bill Lee
>
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