Bulbs: Double Calla., 1 by ineedacupoftea

ineedacupoftea wrote:
Well well well. This feels like my element now...

I did not figure Gen Lavender would be spotted, but some of the best pinks are.
Your second picture is a cultivar that I have that was sld to me (wrongly, I guess?)as 'Flame.' A verery robust plant with a nifty bicolor. Its leaves are most unique in leathery texture and shape. I ahve had it overwinter for me quite well.

"Divers:" If they are earwigs, kill them. They can spead disease. They usually eat pollen, but have become my arch enemy this year in their midnight chewing of so many plants. If anyone tells you that they are purely detritus eaters, never beleive a word they say again!

I have hybridized a few, but have brilliantly managed to recently kill the seedlings with a good drought... I have a new dark-color focused breeding program this year between a strongly elliotiana/(p-species name I forget) hybrid and a strongly rhemanni (yet spotted) hybrid.

Fertilization (or rather, Pollenization.):
The two parts of the flower usually ripen at different times so as to avoid self-fertilization.. Some overlap can allow for self-pollenization, as the male is right above the female, conveniently falling right on. (Usually happening to only a row or two of female parts- the plant is just doing its last resort) I think there must be little flying things that pollenate, because I notice a marked difference in flower longevity (resulting from un-pollenation) when the flower is alone or in a pollenator-less environment, like indoors. Actually no, (about the little flying pollenator theory) the main pollenator is probably thrips, who are very prevalent in such fleshy flowers. A person can do it easily oneself with a paintbrush; it is all very expositionist.

Do you need some Z. albomaculata seed, Robert? I just harvesteda near-ripe berry from a plant that I reversed the dormancy/growth stage on. I just put the bulb in storage. On that note, my experience shows a minimum rest of three months in order to flower the next season. On the note of fresh seed, I have found that dried and cleaned seed stores extremely well, with excellent germination after three years.

I am happy to see these spactacular plants become more widely grown and hybridized.
Kenton