Bulb longissimum (collettii)

[LJA]

Woo hoo Jane!

Those look just great--so exotic!

I can't wait till my little seedlings get blooming sized.

Very nicely mounted, too!

[L I Jane]

Gilda-It does get good light & if you notice that the spike on this shot above it is coming out of a newly formed growth.The leaf is just opened a little bit not like the other 'shrivelled growths that you see with wide open leaves' I water every day.I grow it hanging from the top tier over a bench.Maybe I should pad it on the bottom with sphagnum to help keep them plumper but I'm not sure if it needs to look desiccated to bloom.'Tis a puzzlement.

[L I Jane]

Tim-Bench72--this is for you.The smell? Imagine moldy mown grass.That's my take when I put my nose into the plant today.

[bench72]

Oh wow, I love the smell of newly mown grass... oh hold on you said moldy... ummm, hmmm... it's still very pretty! Thanks Jane.

Cheers
Tim

[Forrest]

nicely done. I dont see the longissimum though, is it suppose to be a hybrid with collettii and longissimum?

[L I Jane]

I don't know Forrest.I thought that collettii was just another name for longissimum The collettii was just in brackets after longissimum on the tag.

[L I Jane]

Aha Forrest, I just looked it up on Jay's site as collettii which said to look at wendlandianum.The pic there looks like mine .Now I'll have to check out longissimum & see what that is all about.

[Forrest]

collettii is its own species, synonym wendlandianum.

check these out for comparison.

collettii

longissimum

[Jmoney]

very bizarre. two thumbs up.

[bench72]

Jane, it could be a hybrid as Forest said, the collettii doesn't have the long petals as your do.. so that may be where the longissimum comes into play.

Cheers
Tim