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Roscoea cautleyoides 'Himalaya' is recent introduction. It is being distributed as a form of R.cautletoides , but it has been suggested that it may be a white form of R.tumjensis. I am retaining it under R. cautleyoides for now, because that is how it seems to me at present, but am keeping an open mind. It has large well formed flowers and makes a good show with its first flush of flowers. A second flush of flowers follows in august, but made rather a feeble show this year. It may become more impressive as the clump matures. I got it from Paul Christiaan's Rare Plants nursery. His catalogue says: "This is about the tallest form, yet it is beautifully slender and gracile plant with good-sized flowers but of a paler yellow. The slender nature means that a plant left to clump, or a few planted together, becomes superbly tight yet floriferous with time." In 'The Plantsman', Richard Wilford writes: "This cultivar has flowers that open all around the inflorescence, with often several open at one time. It is yellow-flowered but the colour (pale yellow 2D) is paler than typical R. cautleyoides. The yellowish green, glaucescent peduncle and the floral bracts and sheaths are green." |
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| 14th May 2005 | ||
