Late May 2019 - different great stuff, yellow, purple and more

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    wcutler Paragon of Plants Forums Moderator VCBF Cherry Scout 10 Years

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    I was going to piggy-back on the May great stuff posting, but browsing through, I realized that what we saw yesterday was all different stuff. I had hoped to test out what I learned about camas flowers and found them almost all finished. Here is what's left of Camassia leichtlinii ssp. suksdorfii, with the spent petals wrapped around the ovary.
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    And Camassia quamash, with petals withering separately.
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    I recognized this as a ground orchid, but did not know the name Bletilla striata, Chinese ground orchid:
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    Still on purple, Stauntonia angustifolia, last reported as Holboellia angustifolia, narrow-leaf holboellia, is in bloom just before the tunnel. So delicate, subdued.
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    Not in any way subdued is the Wisteria floribunda 'Multijuga'.
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    Back to delicate, but very striking, is Bistorta affinis 'Border Jewel'.
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    Here is some yellow: Genista pilosa 'Vancouver Gold', a creeping broom.
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    And African iris, Dietes iridioides.
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    I got as excited about these pods as I would have for flowers, but they're a bit curious. Lathyrus vernus are supposed to bloom in May and June, but it's from eastern Europe and Asia, so maybe it blooms early here. These aren't last year's pods, are they?
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    Here is stamp from the USSR showing the flowers. This image is in the public domain.
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    I forgot a wisteria, on the main path in the Asian Garden - Wisteria brachybotrys 'Shiro Kapitan', silky wisteria. The flowers are white (very hard to see here), fragrant according to the people around me, and that's it, the light leaves, at the top of that tree.
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    Here are my favourites from last visit(2019/05/23).
    Beautiful-beautiful, no words and I think this is a new cactus with brightest yellow flowers in the Alpine garden hot house, Maihueniopsis ovata, on one website they call it Opuntia ovata too
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    Another cactus is small but rare(?) and blooming, Rebutia minuscula, fire crown cactus
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    Delosperma dyeri Psdold with unusual color flowers
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    in S Africa section we found a very bright Tritonia crocata, flame freesia.
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    I'll add two cacti similar to the first one Nadia posted.
    Maihueniopsis glomerata and Maihuenia poeppigii. I learned the term "stigmatic lobes" in the newest Botany Photo of the Day at Opuntia aurea. The pale green stigmatic lobes on this Maihueniopsis glomerata are admittedly no match for those bright red ones on the M. ovata that Nadia posted, so I guess these just get one "beautiful".
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