Tropical Stumper

Discussion in 'Plants and Biodiversity Stumpers' started by lorax, Jun 18, 2009.

  1. lorax

    lorax Rising Contributor 10 Years

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    Happy birthday to me! I'll give you all the gift of a stumper.
    Family, genus and species, please, and plant habit if you want to venture it.
     

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    Lila Pereszke Well-Known Member 10 Years

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    Hm-hm... Bomarea sp.??? (Or at least something in Alstroemeriaceae?)
     
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    lorax Rising Contributor 10 Years

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    Yup. Now the species, please. This is a very distinct one.
     
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    Margaret Active Member 10 Years

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    A very happy birthday!!!!!! Hope that you also received gifts as well as giving us a stumper.
    Margaret
    ps. Don't have the faintest idea about the stumper but look forward to someone answering it correctly.
     
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    Liz Well-Known Member 10 Years

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    Happy Birthday your catching up. Sorry have no idea
    Liz
     
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    Lila Pereszke Well-Known Member 10 Years

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    Pff, I don't know which Bomarea could it be, but I know it's spanish common name, since your "Red Flower Test": zarsilla!!! :)))

    Well, if this is your birthday plant, then it is surely a Bomarea loraxi... :)
     
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    lorax Rising Contributor 10 Years

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    The common name is Cathedral Bells (Campañas de la Catedral), but that gives you no clue as to the actual species name, since the two are not related. I wish I had an Alstromeriaceae named after me, but I'll have to make do with Anthuriums in that respect.

    This one's been known for quite a while, and is one of the more common Bomareas in cultivation (if one could say that of Bomarea, which is hardly ever cultivated.)
     
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    lorax Rising Contributor 10 Years

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    LOL! Nobody bit - and this is the most distinctive of the Bomareas, too. It's B. pardina, which is normally found several hundred meters above this photographed specimen.
     

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