Hi there,
I thought I'd show a group of red hybrids showing the variation in flower size possible in cyps.
Sorry about the small photo - I've fiddled around resizing these and this is about as good a resolution as I can acheive.
I can post individual plant and flower photos if people are interested.
The large plant in the middle of the back row is the Lucy Pinkepank I've just posted on it's own.
Front left is a dark Philipp (kentuckiense x macranthos) from Crustacare in Belgium where they used a deeply coloured clone of macranthos they call 'red russian'. It may well be a form from the Baikal region of Russia where this variable species is particularly well coloured.
Front right are the almost chocolate coloured flowers of 'Pixi' (calceolus x tibeticum). This hybrid is particularly vigorous. There are now twenty resting buds - up from the ten growths that are present here. This flowering isn't very good as the plant was repotted last winter and didn't like it.
Back left is an almost obscured plant of the popular grex 'Gisela' ( parviflorum x macranthos). This plant is well coloured but a slowish grower. It has taken six years to increase from a single to nine growths - something I should have been able to achieve in half that time.
Finally on the back right is a nice clone of x ventricosum. This is a division from a breeder in the UK and is a very deep wine red.
Comparing the flowers, you can see that the smallest flower is Gisela. Next comes Pixi and ventricosum. Philipp is bigger than either of these but is dwarfed by Lucy P,
Regards,
David
I thought I'd show a group of red hybrids showing the variation in flower size possible in cyps.
Sorry about the small photo - I've fiddled around resizing these and this is about as good a resolution as I can acheive.
I can post individual plant and flower photos if people are interested.
The large plant in the middle of the back row is the Lucy Pinkepank I've just posted on it's own.
Front left is a dark Philipp (kentuckiense x macranthos) from Crustacare in Belgium where they used a deeply coloured clone of macranthos they call 'red russian'. It may well be a form from the Baikal region of Russia where this variable species is particularly well coloured.
Front right are the almost chocolate coloured flowers of 'Pixi' (calceolus x tibeticum). This hybrid is particularly vigorous. There are now twenty resting buds - up from the ten growths that are present here. This flowering isn't very good as the plant was repotted last winter and didn't like it.
Back left is an almost obscured plant of the popular grex 'Gisela' ( parviflorum x macranthos). This plant is well coloured but a slowish grower. It has taken six years to increase from a single to nine growths - something I should have been able to achieve in half that time.
Finally on the back right is a nice clone of x ventricosum. This is a division from a breeder in the UK and is a very deep wine red.
Comparing the flowers, you can see that the smallest flower is Gisela. Next comes Pixi and ventricosum. Philipp is bigger than either of these but is dwarfed by Lucy P,
Regards,
David