Santo Domingo
The view from Corazon del Pueblo
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- Christopher Stowens
- Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
- Musician, photographer, videographer, reporter, ex-officio teacher, now attempting to be a world traveler
The view from Corazon del Pueblo
6 comments:
looks like an Allium
I am checking with my friend who is a Master Gardener
I'll let you know what he thinks
Hi Chris- Rob Girard...we met briefly in Jan 2017 when in Oaxaca with Steve and Bev. I'm 99% sure this is a scadoxus multiflorus...a bulb from South Africa...beautiful and cool to see outside of a botanical garden collection. Thanks for sharing.
Hmmm.... Gracias. Cristina Potters tells me it's a Banksia, a class of Protea.
It's not a banksia...they are mostly woody plants more in the shrub range. It is a scadoxus...in the amaryllis family. I have grown this plant extensively in a greenhouse here in Connecticut. My one percent hesitation was it's location. Though, culturally, it would make sense that this plant would naturalize in Mexico. Rob Girard
Cool. Scadoxus makes sense. It does grow like an amaryllis. Gardening here in Oaxaca is a challenge with no rain from Dec to May. I can't water everything, so it must be a tough plant, only reappearing when the rains return which they just have.
It is a tough plant. There are a large number of plants, indigenous to South Africa and very specific parts of the cape, that, as a matter of changing climate and weather patterns following the last ice age, evolved in a manner so as to develop a bulbous root system. To do what...and be as tough as...you just described. You're lucky it's found a home in Mexico. Rob Girard
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