Re: Utric

John Taylor [The Banshee] (rphjt@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU)
Tue, 20 Apr 93 11:25:50 +0000

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>I had a _Utric_ from Fred Howell finally flower the other day, after
>several months of not doing anything much. It turned out to be some
>_U.bisquamata_, but a very nice clone. For a long time I grew a plant with
>tiny flowers, only a few mm long, which were yellow and white. Then my
>clone from Gordon Snelling just recently flowered and the trait I saw them
>with in Gordon's collection, flowers nearly 1cm across and long with bold
>purple markings in addition to the yellow and white, carried over into
>my cultural conditions. The clone from Fred Howell is perfectly intermediate
>between these two in size, and colourations. The purple is present but not
>quite as bold. A very nice little plant.

I think I also have this (or a very similar) clone of U. "capensis". The
flowers are about 5mm across and are mostly white with a pale purple blotch
near the corolla (I think this was fairly large, maybe covering 1/4-1/2 the
lower corolla - I'll see if any are still flowering...) Maybe there are
two distinct forms/subspecies (or different species entirely?) and this clone
is the hybrid?? (Actually, I think my form was about the same size as the
U. pentadactyla I have - in fact they are very similar plants (maybe only
superficially so...))

>I also see that my _U.alpina_ is going to flower. I think, though, it will
>happen while I am gone this summer. :(

@$%#$^ The seeds of U. alpina that I bought from Allen Lowrie haven't
germinated yet (neither have the most of the other seeds, for that
matter...) :-(

>Now I have to work on separating the _U.subulata_ weed from the
>_U.bisquamata_ in Gordon's clone!

Good luck - you'll need it! ;-)

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