Fredders Posted September 19, 2011 Report Share Posted September 19, 2011 Hi guys Inspired by some of the other pics on the forum, I thought I'd have a crack at taking some nice pics of a few of my location native Utrics and other rare Utrics that I'm growing that are currently in flower. Cheers Steve U. aff dichotoma "Grampians, Vic" A difficult highland clone to grow, unique in it's pale colouration. U. aff dichotoma "Grampians, Vic" U. dichotoma Cranbourne, VIC. Clone 1 U. dichotoma Cranbourne, VIC. Clone 2 U. shultesii "Venezuela" This flower is only about 6-7mm in size and quite difficult to photograph. U. warburgii "China" U. warburgii "China" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheInactiveMoth Posted September 19, 2011 Report Share Posted September 19, 2011 Nice photos - especially the least plant! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fernando Rivadavia Posted September 19, 2011 Report Share Posted September 19, 2011 Beautiful shots!!! Are you sure your U.schultesii is not U.amethystina? Fernando Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobile Posted September 19, 2011 Report Share Posted September 19, 2011 Spectacular flowers and photography. The U. aff dichotoma "Grampians, Vic" is particularly beautiful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Caldwell Posted September 19, 2011 Report Share Posted September 19, 2011 I'm used to seeing U. dichotoma at Langwarrin, which of course is in the same neck of the woods as Cranbourne. But that Grampians one really is spectacular with its delicate colours! Very nice. Cheers, Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moof Posted September 19, 2011 Report Share Posted September 19, 2011 Beautiful flowers, very nice photos! Are you sure about U.schultesii ID? Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Fleischmann Posted September 19, 2011 Report Share Posted September 19, 2011 Hello, This mysterious "U. cf. schultesii", which lost its "cf." somehow on the way to down under, turned out to be one of the several high altitude forms of U. amethystina, as clearly evident from the fused bract and bracteoles. Certainly several of them, which were all lumped into U. amethystina by Peter Taylor, should be treated as separate species (again), and this one matches Steyermark's U. tepuiana. All the best, Andreas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimscott Posted September 19, 2011 Report Share Posted September 19, 2011 Great job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moof Posted September 19, 2011 Report Share Posted September 19, 2011 (...) and this one matches Steyermark's U. tepuiana. Out of curiosity - would it be OK to use this name now for the U.schultesii? Regards, Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fernando Rivadavia Posted September 19, 2011 Report Share Posted September 19, 2011 Probably better just to treat it as U.amethystina for now. There is someone currently working on the whole complex and will hopefully be able to split them into species once again. F Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James O'Neill Posted September 19, 2011 Report Share Posted September 19, 2011 Some fab utrics there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel G Posted September 19, 2011 Report Share Posted September 19, 2011 Beautiful shots! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Hingst Posted September 19, 2011 Report Share Posted September 19, 2011 Very nice Steve! Didn't know that U. schultesii (or whatever it will be called) is in cultivation. Not sure how taxonomically valuable, but I find this inflated balloon with its distinctive markings surpringly similar to what we found on Amuri tepui at about 2000m asl - and what Andreas identified as schultesii and again your plant: Congrats to your cultivation success Martin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredders Posted September 20, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2011 Thanks for the compliments guys Darren in Tassie needs to take some of the credit as he germinated the seed that came from Andreas and grew the plants initially. I received a small plant off him last December which has then proceeded to flower for me over the last couple of months. Martin, this is the same plant that you found on Amuri Tepui. I checked the label last night and it does say Amuri Tepui, I just couldn't remember the exact location when I posted the pics. Fernando and Andreas, thanks for clearing up the name. I'll change it to U. amethystina for now and will pass that info onto Darren, as I think we're the only 2 people in Aus that are growing it. If you guys could keep me updated on the name, that would be great. Cheers Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasL Posted September 21, 2011 Report Share Posted September 21, 2011 Hello Steve Very nice pictures. I love the different dichotoma Flowers. I wish i had these forms. ;) Thanks for sharing. Bye Thomas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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