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showy desert geophytes

Posted by yonit_nadra UK (yonitnadra@rhs.org.uk) on
Sun, Dec 4, 05 at 11:18

Hello, I'm writing a dissertation about showy geophytes from arid lands, and almost gave up on Australia. You have so much desert - yet I have failed to track even one candidate for my dissertation. Please help ASAP!!!


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RE: showy desert geophytes

We have plenty (I had to look up geophyte - it means " a perennial plant propagated by overwintering buds on underground bulbs or tubers or corms.").

In the lily family we have Chamaescilla corymbosa, bulbine sp., anthropodium, thelymitra, psterostylus plumosa.

Look up plants of the little desert, big desert, and plants around broken hill. There isn't much in the simpson, tanami or great victoria deserts as those are a) colonised by eremophyla and similar perenials, and b) have such unpredictable weather that bulbs are a bad strategy (that's my theory anyway).


 
 

 

 


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