Friday, October 19, 2012

Mass flowering of Argostemma

Cold swirling clouds shrouded us as we slid out of the dark undergrowth at a highland trail. On one side we were protected from a possibly limb-breaking drop by stunted trees and shrubs ; at the other side was a mossy slope full of white stars ...... 

..... this floriferous population of Argostemma (elatostemma ?) would be one of the justifications of our folly. Argostemma is large genus consisting of about 100 species, most of them in Asia but there are a couple of anamolous species in Africa also.Not all of them are highland type of course but the lowland varieties tend to be less eye catching. The genus as a whole are not commonly grown, which is a pity.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

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Brown fingers said...

I do not know Argostemma can be so beautiful - usually they look like weeds to me - haha.

Jérôme Smith Ju 朱 said...

Argostemma.. we called it Genus 雪花(snowflower) in Flora China.

Beauutiful..
http://www.nhpe.org/pdf/71(1)/180.pdf

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