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Geophytes and others
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Collecting (mostly) geophytes in the Pacific Northwest 🇨🇦
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Hippeastrum mandonii

#hippeastrum #amaryllis #amaryllidaceae #rareplants #plantsky #horticulture #botany #plants #flowers
July 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Absolutely enamored by what I received in a plant swap as Hippeastrum leonardii, but several knowledgeable people have indicated might be H. menesesii instead.

#hippeastrum #amaryllis #geophyte #flowerbulb #gardening #rareplants #horticulture #caudex #houseplants #plantsky
A scape of Hippeastrum leonardii bearing two flowers pointed in opposite directions. The flowers have six petals and are star-shaped, with fine reddish streaks and speckles on a green-white background
July 23, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Monnierara Millennium Magic 'Witchcraft'

#Monnierara #catasetum #catasetinae #orchid #gardening #horticulture #houseplant
An inflorescence of the black orchid Monnierara Millenium Magic 'Witchcraft', with 13 dark spiky flowers arranged along its length. In the background, the main plant is visible as a cluster of spindle shaped pseudobulbs in a dark pot
June 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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A pretty dutch iris
#dutchiris #iris #gardening #horticulture
A flowering dutch iris, with other flowering irises in the background
May 30, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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WOW! I just walked through a field FILLED with beach-ball sized explosions of blossom: the king candelabra flower (Brunsvigia orientalis), en masse, is a truly unforgettable spectacle 😲
Beach-ball sized explosions of blossom: the king candelabra flower (Brunsvigia orientalis).
February 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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#pamianthe #houseplants #gardening #rareplants #horticulture #endangered
Wide open Pamianthe flowers rise over bright green foliage. Six enormous petals radiate like a star from a cup shaped central corolla
April 26, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Phalaenopsis schilleriana

#phalaenopsis #orchid #orchidaceae #plantsky #horticulture #gardening #houseplant #indoorgardening
A hanging, spidery inflorescence of pale pink Phalaenopsis flowers
April 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Paphiopedilum maudiae-type hybrid

#paphiopedilum #orchid #slipperorchid #gardening #houseplant #indoorplant #horticulture
A close up of a Paphiopedilum flower. The flower is purple with intricate dark veins lacing the petals. Some petals have dark hairs fringing their margins
April 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Some late snowdrops

#snowdrop #springbulbs #flowerbulbs #gardening #horticulture #plantsky
A dense cluster of common snowdrops. The leaves are narrow, strap shaped and dark green with a whitish cast. The flowers are bell shaped and hang facing downwards above the leaves
March 16, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Cyrtanthus falcatus, a South African amaryllid with large, above-ground bulbs, deciduous leaves, and distinctive crook in the inflorescence. Flowers are usually orange but this clone is consistently greenish/yellowish. It took 8 years to start flowering but now is reliable in March/April. 🌱 🌴
A cluster of five onion-sized bulbs sit on the soil surface in a large terracotta pot. One bulb sprouts a thick pinkish stalk that curves at the top so that the yellowish-green tubular flowers dangle. The non-flowering bulbs are just starting to sprout leaves. A closeup of the flowers. They are yellowish-green aith an orange flush along the sides. They are shaped like elongated bells or trumpets and face down. A view into the mouth of a flower. The tepals have a delicate red line along their edges.
March 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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And this year I accidentally watered the Sprekelia formosissima early, so I have giant alien flower in March instead of May. 🌱 🌴
A very large, spidery, blood red flower with three tepals curling out and three fused into a sort of tube around the reproductive parts. It looks as though it is adapted for hummingbird pollination, if the hummingbird is the size of a pigeon.
March 11, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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#scadoxus puniceus

#amaryllidaceae #amaryllis #bulbplants #flowerbulbs #plantsky #horticulture #gardening #indoorplants #geophyte #caudex #flowers
A scadoxus puniceus inflorescence. Hundreds of small orange flowers are crowded together with protruding yellow stamens, giving the impression of a paintbrush. Four round, burgundy bracts surround the mass of flowers
March 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Plant alphabet day 23:

W is for Worsleya procera (Empress of Brazil), a fantastic amaryllid with elongated above-ground bulb that grows on granite slopes near Rio de Janeiro. Purchased as a tiny offset in 2013. I’m hoping I won’t have to wait another decade for flowers. 1/2 🌱 🌴
A Worsleya plant with bulb/pseudostem about two feet tall. The bulb is covered with a brown papery tunic and topped with strap-like leaves, so it looks vaguely like a weird palm tree. The top of the bulb where the leaves emerge in a tight fan. The base of the bulb with several small offsets is planted in a potting mix of red scoria (lava rock) and stalite (expanded shale)
March 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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I haven't repotted this Gasteria since 2016. Had to smash the pot to get it out

#gasteria #succulent #houseplant #indoorplant #gardening #horticulture #plantsky #cactus
An old Gasteria succulent with a very dense rootball. The rootball is a perfect mold of the inside of the flowerpot, which is visible as smashed shards on the ground as it had to be broken to extract the plant. No potting mix is visible through the dense roots
March 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Fresh spring foliage of three Sinningia species: Silvery, furry leaves of S. leucotricha (Queen of the Abyss), blistered (bullate) leaves of S. bullata, and dark, glossy leaves of S. macrostachya. 🌱 🌴
Three different Sinningias growing side by side on a greenhouse bench with their differently textured foliage clustered together. Two of the plants have bright orange-red flower buds
March 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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A giant blue star fern for #fernfriday. The whole plant is over a meter across
#bluestarfern #phlebodium #fern #houseplant #indoorplant #plantsky #gardening #horticulture
A very large blue star fern spills exuberantly out of its terracotta pot.
February 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Phaedranassa dubia from the Ecuadorean Andes

#phaedranassa #amaryllidaceae #bulbplant #flowerbulb #geophyte #plantsky #houseplants #indoorplants #rareplants #horticulture #gardening #botany #plants
Two flower spikes of Phaedranassa dubia. The flowers are tubular, red in the middle with green tips and bases.
February 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Haemanthus albiflos, a cute little south African bulb. More or less indestructible.

#haemanthus #amaryllidaceae #bulbplant #flowerbulb #plantsky #gardening #horticulture #botany #houseplant #indoorplant #plant #flower
A Haemanthus albiflos inflorescence, looking like a white paintbrush with yellow tips
February 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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It may be deep winter but it seems churlish to complain when we have the Hippeastrum aulicum and calanthe orchids in flower.
July 31, 2023 at 8:44 PM
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Hippeastrum aulicum, an epiphytic species amaryllis from southern Brazil
#hippeastrum #amaryllis #amaryllidaceae #plantsky #houseplants #plant #gardening #horticulture #botany #indoorplants
Hippeastrum aulicum flower facing the camera. The tepals are narrow and spindle shaped, green then dark burgundy at the bases, fading to bright red towards the tips
February 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Drimiopsis sp. 'Kampersrus', a recently(ish) discovered South African bulb with pretty striped leaves.

#drimiopsis #hyacinthaceae #scilloideae #bulbplant #plantsky #garden #horticulture #botany #houseplant #indoorplant #flowerbulb
A small pot of Drimiopsis. Round purplish bulbs sit at soil level. Tall tongue shaped leaves rise vertically from the bulbs along with a single flower stalk from each bulb.
February 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Veltheimia bracteata, a charismatic bulb plant from south Africa. Excels as an indoor plant in a cooler household.

#veltheimia #bulbplant #plantsky #horticulture #botany #gardening #indoorgarden #plant #houseplant #indoorplant #geophyte #flowerbulb #bulb #caudex #caudiciform
A flowering Veltheimia. A cluster of tubular pink flowers sits on top of a purplish stalk. In the bottom of the photo, strap-shaped, grass green leaves are visible
February 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Hippeastrum papilio, demonstrating the laterally compressed flowers common in this species. An epiphytic amaryllid from Southern Brazil, endangered in habitat but widespread in cultivation #hippeastrum #amaryllis #plantsky #gardening #horticulture #botany #houseplant #plant #flowerbulb
A flowering Hippeastrum papilio posed in front of a white wooden wall. Two star shaped flowers facing opposite directions rise from a grass green stalk. The flowers have burgundy centers and whitish green tepal tips
February 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Moir et al. (2025) asked how pollinators drive geographic floral divergence in Brunsvigia gregaria with a generalist pollination system. Style length correlates with the body length of locally important pollinators, highlighting their critical role in floral evolution. #Ecology

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The title of the paper, 'A test of the Grant–Stebbins pollinator-shift model of floral evolution,' published in New Phytologist. Graphs showing how floral morphology in B. gregaria aligns with pollinator body size and contact probability. The first two graphs show that mean style length increases with pollinator body size (weighted mean pollinator body length and the mean body length of the most important pollinator group). The other two graphs show the probability of contact with floral reproductive parts by ubiquitous pollinators: honeybees contact them more often at short-style sites, while bee flies show no significant difference among sites.
January 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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A closeup of the gorgeous, intricate venation on a crocodile fern (Microsorum musifolium) frond

#fernfriday #fern #botany #plant #plantsky #horticulture #gardening #houseplant #indoorplant #foliage #crocodilefern
A close up shot of a crocodile fern leaf. The leaf is grass green, with a fine geometric meshlike pattern of black veins. The olive green midrib of the frond runs vertically through the middle of the photo
January 31, 2025 at 4:02 PM