My beautiful papilio, let me show you her
Feb. 20th, 2012 02:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lblanchardI've been sitting here taking pictures of my beautiful papilio as it opens today. This species never opens to a flat-faced flower but maintains a trumpet shape. One blossom is almost fully deployed, and the other is about half open. More photos from yesterday and today, showing the progress, after the jump, but here's one to cheer our wintry souls right this very minute.
Some clones of this species are self-fertile; others are self-sterile. They apparently all breed happily with the exotic 'cybister' hybrids, so I'm looking forward to being on the receiving end of some 'Evergreen' cybister pollen as soon as my friend from Indianapolis can drop it in the mail (that would be tomorrow). I'll self-fertilize one flower and put 'Evergreen' pollen on the other. I should get something!
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And here's a photo of Evergreen, from another Flickr user:
Some clones of this species are self-fertile; others are self-sterile. They apparently all breed happily with the exotic 'cybister' hybrids, so I'm looking forward to being on the receiving end of some 'Evergreen' cybister pollen as soon as my friend from Indianapolis can drop it in the mail (that would be tomorrow). I'll self-fertilize one flower and put 'Evergreen' pollen on the other. I should get something!
February 19
February 20
February 20
February 20
And here's a photo of Evergreen, from another Flickr user:
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Date: 2012-02-20 09:40 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-02-20 11:22 pm (UTC)arewere for a long time considered to be part of the Liliaceae, so they're allowed to look lily-ish.I'm awfully fond of Hippeastrums. Here's a link to my photos on Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lblanchard/sets/72157600037669293/
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Date: 2012-02-21 11:49 pm (UTC)I am a Pelargonium collector but you've inspired me to try a Hippeastrum or two one of these days.
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Date: 2012-02-21 08:25 pm (UTC)