The Winner of this contest will win 4 good size baby named plants/ or five sets of named leaves ~ My choice on names but your choise leaves or plants~
Some other Gesneriads other than African violets will be included in the prizes ! Good Luck !
Please Name Six Gesneriads in cultivation with scaly rhizomes .
Please Dmail me your answer.
Good luck !
Contest ! Win Leaves or Plants
Need some helo ? What are Gesneriads with Scaly Rhizomes ?
Well I can't give you the name of the number one gesneriad producing scaly rhiszomes. But if you guess it and tell me it's number one and extra prize will be added to your box !
The rhizomes grow underground at the base of the stem, or occasionally in the leaf axils on some species. Rhizomes remain alive during the dry season in the wild and serve as a means of propagation under cultivation. Gesneriads that produce scaly rhizomes are usually terrestrial plantsgrowing in humus on steep slopes and cliffs or in crevices of rocks. Their requirements for soil and moisture are like those of other gesneriads but they withstand wideer extrems of tempertures and light. Most require a period of dormancy which is brought on by short days, and especially by drying of the soil. Plants may be left in their pots when they become dormant, and stored in a coool place, about 45 degrees. They should be repotted and brought into warmth, humidity and light in early spring. Some require this dormacy period and have one growth/bloom cycle per year. Others will continue to grow and bloom year round under right conditions. With exception of one ~ ~ all scaly rhizomatous gesneriads are natvie to the New World. Do you know the one that is not ? Give me the name for an eztra Bonus gift prize !
sent you d-mail!
I dont know what the heck half of these are.LOL
Thanks for the game Allison
This message was edited May 15, 2006 7:16 AM
dmailed mine and have no clue what most are either lol. i just want those plants lol
Well I can tell you what most of them are and find pictures of a lot in the Gesneriads reference Web !
Drat, that is hard, Allison. : ) I have never even seen a rhizome. : )
The answers had to be Gesneriads with scaly rhizomes .
Thanks for everyone playing !
Jan " Jannich" guessed six correct Scaly rhizomes gesneriad plants ~
Kay got four correct.
Sorry Kelly :((
We can have second place winner !
Jan is first place !
You can do some search here also...
Kelly a hint African violets is a gesneriad with firbrous roots only and Sinningia have tubers.
So your looky for Gesneriads with Scaly Rhizomes ~
Kay hunt Streptocarpus also have fibrous roots only ~
Here is one place you can search
http://www.gesneriads.ca/Default.htm
Good LUck ! And Congratulations Jan please let me know if you'd like plants or leaves.
way to go Jan!!!!! yeah : ) allison thanks for the game!
kelly
Great contest Ali! I love it!
Hehe I sent in my answers anyway :)
Thank goodness for the hint...you do ask the darndest questions!
Lorry Congratulations ! you are winner number two ! Please let me know if you's like plants or leaves !
Bonus questions was ..
Achimenes are the best known of gesneriads producing scaly rhizomes
OOOPS just look and Jan answers were Gloxinina
Kohleria
Achimenes
Sinningia
Smitiantha
pearcea
and Sinningia is a tuber wrong.. Sorry my mistake BUT Jan is still a winner so Jan please let me know what you's enjoy plants or leaves !
Miss Lorry had correct answers/exept for the bonus !
Yippee Huray Lorry !
Lorry's six correct answers were
Achimenes
Kohleria
Pearcea
Koellikeria
Smithiantha
Titanotrichum
I have to admit (I had to hunt for the last one) LOL..I only knew of 5!
Hehe
But Jan won Allison..You silly creature :) You didn't have a second place :)
You are just too sweet :)
Hey Allison...did your mail man come today? and did he come with gifts?
Yes I did have second place ! I wrote up top second place and even gave Kelly a hint and link to go search..Post 8:56
I was wondering why Kelly did not try again :""
We can have second place winner !
Jan is first place !
You can do some search here also...
Kelly a hint African violets is a gesneriad with firbrous roots only and Sinningia have tubers.
So your looky for Gesneriads with Scaly Rhizomes ~
Kay hunt Streptocarpus also have fibrous roots only ~
Here is one place you can search
[HYPERLINK@www.gesneriads.ca]
Good LUck ! And Congratulations Jan please let me know if you'd like plants or leaves.::"""
So Jan was first winner with my mistake lol and Lorry is second winner :)) Two prizes will be given out ! Both Jan and Lorry !
Heheh ok ok :)
Why don't you suprise me :) You decide if it is leaves or plants :) I am sure I will be TICKLED with whatever you send my way!
You are way too generous and thanks soo much!
Okey Dokey ! Did you get Teddy Bear yet?
Darnit! Too little too late!
Congrats, Jan...have fun!
Nope..don't have teddy bear yet :)
Oh shoot.I only got 5 right:) I did a seach on the link you posted Alllison for scaly rhizomatous and the sinn.came up.lol
The winner is Lorry she go all 6 right:) Congrats Lorry!
No Jan it was my mistake not checking answers good . You are a Winner too! Both winners "
This is why I thought this Sinn.was scaly rhizome.It has a little of both I guess.I dont know I'm just a newbie:)lol
http://gesneriads.ca/sinni169.htm
Allison your just to kind.Thank you:)
WOW I just love these pictures and info !
I can see how you would think so. " appear somewhat like scaly rhizomes " Where it says somewhat LIKE. But it's a tuber.
BUT then it goes on about the Species Sinn
"Species such as this (and others like S. tubiflora) appear to have characters of both tuberous and rhizomatous plants.
Now does it mean they apear to have the same Characters of both ? both tuberous and rhizomatous plants.
APEAR ?? yet still tuber?
Very fascinating.
Now I was reading the info about Gesneriads in my Gesneriads journal where it explains about what characteristic of each gesneriad. And they explain what a tuber, and scaly rhizome is then give a list of plants of each. and they had Sinningias under tuber.
So are they sayinf in link above that they just " somewhat LIKE scaly rhizomes " but are tubers ? just some what LIKE ?
But then have the some Species have the same characters of both tuberous and rhizomatous plants.Does this mean their either these species or tubers that are like scaly rhizomes ?
Confucing some yes ?
Then again I was just going by the list in the journal.
But I can surely see why this could also be used as an answer.
Now I can't stay awake and I might have typed a bunch of gouloush. lol
Confuses me now.LOL
Do that still mean I win? LOL.
Ues two winners ! Yippee
Hey Allison, check your Dmail:)
Janis
woo hoo! this is my first time winning anything.I would still like to no the answer which one is it.tuber and rhinzone together?Got to read some more.Love the info on these plants Allison!
It is most defintiely a tuber :) Mine look like little onions :)
as long as they don't smell like onions lol.
kelly
Too cute Kelly !
LOL nope but they are BIG onions I will say that :)
Most are triple the size of the actual plant
Lorry do you have pictures please for show and tell !
LOL nope..I never took pictures of the tuber but I am sure I can pull one up a lil bit to show
Contest Boxes go out tomorrow ! Yipee :))
Wooohooo :) can't wait to see :) You are too kind Ms Allison :)
I'm going crazy Lorry trying to find surprises I hope you don't have .
LOL..I am sure I will ADORE anything you send Allison :)
I have some scaly rhizome on me after being in the jungle>>>>>>>>>>>>>8))
Oh my Bob