PlantFiles Pictures: Tropaeolum (Tropaeolum sessilifolium), 1 by DORA777

DORA777 wrote:
I know Alstroemeria is famous speceis in Chile and recently we can often see them in Japanese gardening shops. But I didn't know Leontochir ovallei, (Thanks for your beautiful photo! A minute ago, I saw also their ones you had contributed in DG.) is a forbidden plant, and 'PWS' has these seeds.

The maximum temperatures in my area are about 38-C in summer. I'm surprised that it's over 30-C, it's hot enough even in the mountain area. Does it become cool at night? We have 30 days or more sleepless nights in summer, during the period the minimum temperatures are about 27-C. It's the hottest from the end of July to the end of August. Not only the temperature but also the humidity is very high. So many plants die in this season. It is said that the high temperature at night gives large damage to plants.

It's interesting you and some people are growing wild plants in the wild. It's a wonderful environment for the plants! If you have chance in future, please let me show some photos of dull yellow & the other rare colored tricolors blooming, even with a lot of dust! It seems that the roads to reach them are rather bad, do you go there by car? Or on foot? Or both? How long do you walk to go there? Anyway, physical strength might be necessary to observe wild plants.

BTW, I've never gotten any seeds of T.tricolor. I always fail though I try the pollination of these flowers every year. I do the pollination work with a cotton bud. The other speceis produce many seeds by this method, so it's strange. There may be some tricks to success, but I've not found them yet. Do you have any idea?

Thank you for introducing your reference books. I'm very interested in them, but it's hard for me to read them written in Spanish!

The photo is one of my Tropaeolum collections; I bought 3 tubers as T.polyphyllum from a Japanese company a few years ago . But it seems wrong! These are not T.polyphyllum. But yellow flowers are beautiful and smell good. What do you think about this?