Caribbean N. ampla

[Craig]

Awhile back I got a few plants in from the Caribbean and one I was most interested in seeing has opened it's first bloom.  This is an island form of N. ampla and has definite differences from the Mexican and Florida stock I had been growing.  The petioles and peduncles are a distinctive red, the leaves maintain the speckling and it has fewer petals.  Checked today and the pollen is viable, so it is off to the races.<g>

[Vickie]

Very interesting. We will be anxious to see what you create. My ampla did not sprout this year. We have had cool July weather again.

[Sean]

best of luck hybridizing with it!

Cheers,
Sean

[mushrooms]

Interesting. Good luck with hybridizing Craig, I am a big fan of your lilies.

[Jonna]

That should be interesting, it doesn't look like the wild lilies here.  I guess they are the ones you already had, green pads and brown stems. 

[Kat]

Good luck!  Always enjoy seeing pics of what you have created or aquired as you've got so many unusual plants.

[greenthumbnails]

Hey, maybe you can create a nigtbloomer with mottled pads?

[Craig]

There has been a further development with my Caribbean "ampla".  It looked and behaved so differently from my current ampla that I sent pictures to Kit Knotts to get her opinion.  She was suspicious as well and forwarded the pictures to Dr. John Wiersma of the USDA GRIN database and undoubtedly the foremost expert on Nymphaea in the country.

Long story short....he immediately and enthusiastically recognized it as not being N. ampla, but an entirely different species named N. pulchella, which I found to be exciting.<g>

Out of curiousity, I plan to revisit some of my ampla crosses, but substitute the pulchella and see what I get this time around.

[Jonna]

That is exciting Craig.  I want to see what you get from it.

[bunny56lbc]

That is exciting Craig.  I want to see what you get from it.

 

I am also a fan of Craig's lilies....

bonnie