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Post by picrophyll on Mar 28, 2007 14:15:13 GMT
While you are on the topic of Stylidiums, I've got to slip in my favourite S. schoenoides. There is a bush block not far from my home that had a good hot bush fire go through there last summer and the resulting flower display was unbelievable. The Stylidiums were competing for show with the thousands of flowering D. stolonifera spp porrecta (D. porrecta), those insects that didn't get belted by the Stylidium triggers were food for the Drosera. S. schoenoides    |
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Post by pinglover on Apr 15, 2007 0:59:10 GMT
I've never seen this plant before. Very beautiful.
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Post by endodoc on May 11, 2007 12:04:16 GMT
picrophyll
how does someone obtain seed for this beauty??
regards
ed
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Post by SilverKiento on May 19, 2007 2:29:11 GMT
I got some seed of S. graminifolium from Cook a while ago. He no longer sells the seed, he's going to try and germinate them himself and sell the actual plants. I have not since been able to germinate them.. but I am still trying.
I recently ordered S. debile off of eBay though.
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Post by picrophyll on May 20, 2007 12:31:20 GMT
Endodoc
I have no idea where seed can be obtained. Last year my plants produced seeds that I sent to Doug Darnowski. I haven't heard if he had success or not. Perhaps an email to me in October will tell if I have seed being produced.
cheers
Phill
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Post by SilverKiento on May 22, 2007 1:24:00 GMT
I guess they don't self pollinate or they wouldn't need their neat little trigger flowers. I wonder if it is possible to make some hybrids of them.. hopefully I will have S. debile AND some S. graminifolium soon so that I can attempt a cross of the two.
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Post by picrophyll on May 23, 2007 14:36:37 GMT
SilverKiento
There is no reason why hybrids couldn't be made. I think in the wild many plants have specific polinators which prevents hybrids.
Cheers
Phill
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Post by brokken on Jun 11, 2007 21:23:50 GMT
picrophyll how does someone obtain seed for this beauty?? regards ed I might be able to fix you up with some seeds Ed. I got some as a thank-you for some seeds that I gave away. There maybe enough for two. |
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Post by endodoc on Jun 15, 2007 13:45:13 GMT
brokken
thanks for the reply, seed would be great!! i will send some things your way
regards
ed
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Post by kitkor on Jul 11, 2007 19:35:47 GMT
Excellent photos, picrophyll! Do you happen to have some photos you might consider releasing into the public domain? It would still be your copyright with attribution required, but available for commercial use/modification -- I'm thinking especially for use on Wikipedia. I'm currently creating all the articles for the Stylidium species and finding photos is difficult!
Anyway, on hybridization:
The only reference I've seen to natural hybrids is a quick mention by Sherwin Carlquist in his 1969 paper in the journal Aliso. He discusses a single hybrid individual he found between two populations that he labeled Stylidium petiolare ×Stylidium pulchellum. He notes: "Between Capel and Boyanup, I discovered a single hybrid individual. Both parental species were abundant and growing intermixed at the same locality. Hybrids have not previously been reported in Stylidium." He goes on to discuss another possible hybrid in a species complex, but I haven't yet unraveled that mess in the literature.
So the case could be that 1) No one has really found any natural hybrids but they really exist, 2) Natural hybrids don't really occur, but that won't prevent cultivated hybrids from being formed, or 3) Cultivated hybrids will be difficult if not impossible to create outside of a few select cases (within very closely related species groups or complexes), indicated by the lack of natural hybrids. I'd put my bet on #3, or at least that's the impression that I get from the literature.
Cheers,
Ryan
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Post by picrophyll on Jul 22, 2007 15:09:15 GMT
Ryan
Sorry for the slow reply. I have plenty of photos of many species but unfortunately so many of them are unnamed as the work so far has been scant. I have a photocopy of that Aliso paper from 1969 and a lot of other papers associated with this group.
If you are interested in playing around with these photos then let me know and I'll put them into disk format and send. Many of the photos I have taken one of the flower and at least one of the plant. There are also quite a few from the north that are possibly new species, but who would know?
Check out this site as the search will give you a lot of info and authors for the Stylidiums -http://www.naturebase.net/content/view/951/482/
If you go into current content the last journal had 6 entries from J.A. WEGE on revamped and new species.
Cheers for now
Phill
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Post by kitkor on Aug 2, 2007 14:35:58 GMT
Phill,
No problem. I sent your a private message through the forum system. I'd love the chance to take a look at your photos.
Cheers,
Ryan
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