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Chad
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 10:03 pm Posts: 2343 Location: Inland Cornwall UK
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Will it make it before the frost?
A magnificent Dahlia has flower buds for the first time with me.
The plant is called [according to supplier] Dahlia aff. pteropoda or Dahlia sp. nova.
It is making a magnificent foliage plant topping out at nearly nine feet.
Dahlia tamaulipana
Dahlia tamaulipana
Dahlia tamaulipana
Dahlia foeniculifolia may flower for the first time for me this year as well; but it is under cover so has a better chance.
Dahlia campanulata is in a more exposed space and has already succumbed; losing its tender growths to gales.
Tucked under its feet and with a little more shelter is Aloe arborescens 'Variegata' - has it any hope of flowering outside at this time of year?
We don't usually get a frost here till late December, but growth has slowed right down so they take ages to 'do' anything.
Chad.
Last edited by Chad on Wed Dec 14, 2016 10:03 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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fillan
Joined: Sun Jun 06, 2010 8:32 pm Posts: 63 Location: devon uk
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Re: Will it make it before the frost?
Hi Chad Good to see your plant is in bud My plants in open tunnel just survived last nights freeze but leaves were bronzed. As for name. Put out as D aff pteropoda it keys out in later works as Dahlia tubulata These larger Eastern forms from lower elevations are related but obviously very different from Sorensens original description. The Mexican authorities have put a name of Dahlia tamaulipana on this material but I have not seen a description yet! This Dahlia occurs both North and South of Los Troncones (the origin of your material) and was collected by Hinton to the NW. To the South the workers at "El Cielo" refer to it as Dahlia rosea or Dahlia merckii. For me the hope of November flowers outside is poor but they are such great foliage plants and very root-hardy it makes them well worthwhile.
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Kev Spence
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Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:59 pm Posts: 10902 Location: Loughborough, Leics, central UK
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Re: Will it make it before the frost?
Fingers crossed for you Chad please post a picture should they make it.....we have between -1c and -4c forecast for tomorrow I hope you miss out on that.
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Chad
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 10:03 pm Posts: 2343 Location: Inland Cornwall UK
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Re: Will it make it before the frost?
We haven't had a frost yet, but the autumn gales have blown through!
Dahlia tamaulipana
Dahlia tamaulipana
Nick from PanGlobal was talking in Cornwall and showed a wonderful picture of this in unbattered flower.
This rather bedraggled flower is the best I'll get until I have grown some more wind break.
Chad.
Last edited by Chad on Wed Dec 14, 2016 10:04 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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david feix
Joined: Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:54 am Posts: 3206 Location: Berkeley, California
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Re: Will it make it before the frost?
Your Dahlia has some resemblance to D. tenuicaulis, except the flower isn't as dark. Growth habit seems quite similar. I know how nerve wracking late blooming Dahlias can be, between winter frost and winter storms. I eventually got rid of Dahlia tenuicaulis because the structure was just too fragile to normal weather. Has your Dahlia campanulata ever managed to bloom? One I thought I'd managed to get ahold of, but turned out to be just another D. imperialis once it bloomed.
All Aloe arborescens typically are in bloom by early December here in northern California, except the yellow flowered form may sometimes start blooming as early as late October.
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Chad
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 10:03 pm Posts: 2343 Location: Inland Cornwall UK
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Nick Macer
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:42 pm Posts: 1284 Location: Gloucestershire, UK
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Re: Will it make it before the frost?
Good effort Chad, but that Cornish wind is definitely your enemy! I have flowered this twice in the nursery garden and each time it has looked superb; once in November and once a full month later in December. Most years it gets frosted before flowers open of course, as would be expected in my location.
When I showed material about four years ago (as D. aff. pteropoda) to a Dahlia expert from the Continent with huge experience in the field in Mexico he pronounced it as very different from D. pteropoda and, he thought, very likely a new species. He informed contacts in Mexico of its existence and location at the time. The outcome of this is written up in Spanish. Online translation gives us this:
Dahlia tamaulipana (Asteraceae, Coreopsideae), a new species For the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico. At the end of 2010, Ingo Kazmareck of the University of Hamburg Germany Information and photographs about an interesting Dahlia from the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico, Written by Nick Macer, a great horticulturist and explorer of England. The data were sent to M. in C. Jerónimo Reyes Santiago, connoisseur of the genus Dahlia In Mexico, who immediately realized that it was probably a new species By its flowering season in the month of November. An exploration trip was organized in the middle of November 2012 with the Information and photos of Mr. Macer, who writes that in 2005 "he found a colony Large of a species of Dalia not known right in the middle of a nature reserve, far Of any civilization within a moist forest under the shadow of Quercus Rysophylla ". The data that helped to locate the unknown Dahlia was to mention the Municipality of Cd. Victoria and that grows to 1000 meters of altitude, which was enough to Start the search. After three hours on wet dirt road, we reached a glen that made Stop the expedition, wild turkeys were eating dahlia leaves and flowers Unknown. There were about 15 specimens with flowers, many already destroyed by Turkeys Photographs were taken with details, measured in place and pressed for Herbarium, collecting seeds and live specimens for study. According to the corresponding analysis carried out by the M. in C. Reyes Santiaguillo Reported a new species called Dahlia tamaulipana
I await news of a formal description.
I grow true D. pteropoda and it is a very different plant to D. 'tamaulipana' in almost every detail.
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Wed Dec 14, 2016 9:31 pm |
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Chad
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 10:03 pm Posts: 2343 Location: Inland Cornwall UK
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Re: Will it make it before the frost?
Mark and Nick I thank you both for naming it.
I have cheekily edited the above posts with the name under the pictures.
Let's see how long before those pictures show up as the only ones of it when googling the name Dahlia tamaulipana.
Nick - your epithet sounds better in the original Spanish; 'Nick Macer, un gran horticultor y explorador de Inglaterra.'
Can we adopt the name without a formal written description?
Chad.
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Stan
Joined: Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:52 pm Posts: 10687 Location: Hayward- S.F. Bay area Ca.
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Re: Will it make it before the frost?
Cross it with something Chad..you have a name for posterity in the trade. Freeze the pollen!
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Andy Martin
Joined: Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:58 pm Posts: 1279 Location: Oxford UK
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Re: Will it make it before the frost?
I have managed to flower this plant once Chad in 2014 and that was in mid November ... luckily no frost. Unfortunately growth of other plants has crowded this Dahlia out now. So I will have to move the massive tubers which is no mean task. I have found the molluscs consider it a delicacy also.
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Chad
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 10:03 pm Posts: 2343 Location: Inland Cornwall UK
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Nick Macer
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:42 pm Posts: 1284 Location: Gloucestershire, UK
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John Jearrard
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:19 pm Posts: 487 Location: Cornwall, UK
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Re: Will it make it before the frost?
Well, this thread is already the first 'hit' on google images ...
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Josh76
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Re: Will it make it before the frost?
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Nick Macer
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:42 pm Posts: 1284 Location: Gloucestershire, UK
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Re: Will it make it before the frost?
Latest news...
In the light of recently discovered related entities the Mexicans are holding off naming this officially until relationships are established, to avoid making the mistakes of Sörensen etc years ago.
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