Hi everyone,

It's good to see these pic's altogether, because now maybe I can get a definite ID on my nudicaulis shown below (sorry about the pic quality).

Looking at Nick's pic's it looks to me that it's a "toss up" between aqualis and Silver Streak?

What do others think?

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All the best, Nev.

Nick - good idea to show the inflorescences for comparison. Thanks!

Nev - that looks exactly like my nudicaulis var. aequalis (well, labeled as such) of which I showed photos when you asked before about your questionable nudicaulis cv.'Costa Rica'.
In fact, that cropped photo looks so familiar that I think you may have accidentally mixed it up with yours? The poor image quality is due to it being an older scanned photo, versus digital.

Cheers,
Kerry :)

Hi everyone,

The reason Kerry says the plant in my post looks exactly like hers is because it is hers. It appears I accidently posted the wrong pic when trying to find a suitable pic to post.

When I was trying to ID mine nudicaulis previously, I had collected a number of various pic's of different Ae Nudicaulis for comparison, and it was while I was looking through these for a suitable pic with an open flower that I must have accidently clicked on the wrong one and loaded it into Photo Bucket.

All I can say is I'm sorry everyone, and especially Kerry, I didn't mean to steal your pic, but I guess that happens when you're drinking a glass of red and posting at the same time.

All the best (hic) Nev.

No worries, Nev - it happens to the best of us. For what it's worth, I still think your nudicaulis is var. aequalis, versus Pedro's cv. 'Zebra', or the furphy name of 'Costa Rica'.

K :)

I was amazed to finally get flowers from nudicaulis albo. I've had this one for a really long time and it's never flowered and only one plant out of the three clumps that I have gave me flowers.

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The aqualis has self set. I have seedlings growing from self set seed that I collected last year. They are starting to show their colors but it's too early to tell if there is any variation.

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Nick - your recent photos are still MIA. Try again?

K

Magic! - first you don't see them, and now you do.

How about a photo of your seedlings, Nick?

K :)

I did try to hybridize the aqualis last year not knowing that it selfed. Right now I'm very confident that at least one of the seedlings is a cross. I'll post pics in a couple months when I'm more certain that the seedlings are selfs and not hybrids.

Some of my seedlings are really starting to mature and it looks to me like a fair number of them are hybrids. This one doesn't look like a hybrid.

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Hi Guys,

I photographed the below nudicaulis because it gives the impression that it gets some dark red cup color patterning at flowering. The young plants and the post flower plants are plain green while the leaves of the young plants show some light texture. As they mature they put on these reddish patches of color.

There is one photo on FCBS depicting a nudicaulis demonstrating similar reddish color patches. When I first saw it on FCBS I thought it was always like this, I mean having a bit of red color to it both in and out of flower, and it is not related to flowering. It is however difficult to say because maybe all of those plants, including those not in flower, are adult plants.

Is this something normal/common?

Sheila
P.S. to avoid any confusion, this is not my place

w/ post flower green plant to the right
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Young plant w/ reddish mother to the right
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