Hey everyone, I thought I would break the silence here with a question about hybridizing. I just noticed I have an Agave colorata tha just started sending up a...
I have a Agave in flower now. I could send a whole envelope of flowers. It is a truncated blue plant with short leaves, wide at the top, it make a nice leaf...
I also have 2 desm's blooming right now.....not sure if the blooms have opened up yet, but would be interested, also, in a hybrid with the perfect form of the...
I have only seen it done. JT goes up a ladder and hand pollinates. I just found the name of my plant, A. potatorum. Norma ... From: "Gold Piano Garden"...
Thanks guys, My colorata has just started sending up the shoot, so I imagine it will be a month before it blooms... Norma, it sounds like your plant is ahead...
If you have 2 plants blooming at the same time, you can take anthers from one and, while making buzzing sounds like a bee, dust the stigma of the other. You...
Greg you handled that very declicately. Norma ... From: "starrnursery" <gstarr57@...> To: <agaveforum@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007...
I'm kinda stumped by this plant. MOBOT (http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html) & RHS (http://www.rhs.org.uk/databases/summary.asp) list it as a synonym...
... From: notify@yahoogroups.com [mailto:notify@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of cereusly_steve Sent: November 25, 2007 10:41 AM To: redneckfruitcake Subject: Re:...
Hi all The agave found by Saltillo es an form of A.victoriae-reginae, always named; Agave fernandi-regis. Why not named; Agave victoriae-reginae fa....
... Hello Redneckfruitcake, I can add only very little input here. However there this an Agave labeled as "Agave fernandi-regis" in my local botanical garden. ...
God Steve, I know you are an asshole, but that you are such a terrible one, I couldnt imagine. The "Sergeant Sobel of Botany", "Steve the Copier" among...
I don't know if this will be of any help. I have Howard Scott Gentry book on my lap, that shows a picture page 183 of Agave victoriae-reginae it is growing...
No fuzz is allowed on this forum. ... From: "maartenvanthiel" <m.v.thiel@...> To: <agaveforum@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 8:46 AM ...
... From: "p.c. van der meer" <piteralandia@...> To: <agaveforum@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 2:34 AM Subject: RE: AgaveForum Re:...
Just back from kicking back on the beach, saw this topic, and couldn't resist to set the record straight. First, get it straight, the name is spelled A....
Hi Norma and All Your comments are very usefull. In modern books nowbody separed A. fernandi-regis from A. victoriae-reginae !!!!! But: Have you compared your...
That's a common mistake. Afterall, the name is Ferdinand. I'm not schooled in Latin, but was told that it should actually be fernandi- regis as is evident in...
Got interrupted and didn't finish my thought. It was originally published as Agave fernandi-regis by Berger in 1915, and that's how it should be maintained. ...
Greg: Your email reminded me of one that I received in May to change our spelling to A. ferdinandi-regis. In this amazing world, Berger's 1915 Agave monograph...
Hi Tony at All Donīt forget the very broad black triangular spine , or mostly with tree terminal black spines on A. fernandi-regis . Maybe you can find to...
Is there a Latin scholar in the house? Indeed Tony and Piet, Berger did name the plant for King Ferdinand of Bulgaria. All I know is that Gentry has it as...
Greg, hi, I just trying to see what my Gentry book says, they have it listed as fernandi-regis* but has it's picture under victoriae- reginae with no name...
I don't know what form I have. Sorry, it was given to me as a tiny gift. I have just set it in an open run on a raised spot with rocks all around holding...
Tony thanks, you described mine to a T and I found more pictures is several of my other books. It's even featured in the Huntington Dry Climate Gardening...
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