N. pulchella and Friend
A few years back, a friend on St. Croix had sent me a lily he called 'Nymphaea ampla', but when it grew out, it struck me as different, so I sent pictures to Kit, who then forwarded them to Dr. John Wiersma and he confirmed the plant was actually a related species, N. puchella, once considered a subspecies of ampla. Anyway....I treated it as though it was ampla, but it didn't tuber as prolifically for me and I thought I had lost it. A few weeks ago I flooded a dried pond and the submerged foliage of a seedling caught my eye. It grew out to be puchella!
That and the species plants I horse traded for at the symposium in KC...it is shaping up to be a good year. I'd love to start a thread on the symposium, but I was so busy talking to breeders/growers, I got loads of info but never took a single photo. Information exchange-wise speaking? One of the best collection of knowledgeable people I have had the pleasure to run of at the mouth with. Didn't even stop in KC, as it happens a couple of us were on the same flight to Atlanta.< g >
Coming home, I found this baby gopher in the road...still has the egg tooth. Got him out of the road and will release him in the morning.
Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is. And you must bend to its power or live a lie.”― Miyamoto Musashi
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." ~ Jimi Hendrix
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”― Stephen Hawking
Craig