Ceratostylis phillipinensis .. now where did I leave my microscope...
Just arrived today - part of my birthday present from my dear wife ( I did the choosing,. she did the paying).
I grow the sibling of this species - C.retisquama ( aka rubra) and consider it one of my favourites, for its frequent flushes of bright orange/red flowers, and its quite rapid expansion to fill a larger pan.
So when I spotted this on a list, and looked it up in IOSPE, and saw it is white flowered, I thought, ah yes, I want that... I was in too much of a hurry . The flowers are, fully expanded a mere 4mm across ( not the 1 cm that IOSPE says even if I didn't actually read that bit).
Very wee indeed !.
Ah well, maybe it will, in time, grow to be big enough to see as a plant - the clump shown in the pic is a bare 2 inches across...and maybe I shall come to love it.
Several other goodies in the parcel - all what might be called, less usual species - , but nothing else in flower. I'll show them as and when.
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