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Gorgeous! Another red-flowered ping(or is there others besides P. laueana?).
I am not sure on how to ask this w/o sounding ignorant, but how are visitor relations to Cuba these days? Cuba is not real big and it's very close to the US, so how did these remain hiddend for so long?
What fantastic news!! I can't believe they found anotehr 2 species of Pings in Cuba. Wasn't it just last year that another 2 new species were published?? What amazing diversity of this genus is being uncovered on that island. And finally another red-flowered Ping species! What a beauty! As for the other species, the flowers are also fantastic, those evenly-shaped petals remind me of P.heterophylla or P.filifolia. If you have an electronic copy of the paper, please send it to me Eric!
Unfortunately, if you're American, it is still illegal to travel/trade there. But I recall reading an article (I think in Newsweek) about Americans going to Cuba via Canada or Mexico, and how the Cubans very accomodatingly did not stamp their passports, and had "specially labeled" cigars and rum designed to pass US customs without problem.
The flowers of P.utricularioides were described by McDougall (the guy who collected them back in the 50's) as "scarlet-red". For some reason I had in my mind that it was more like the color of P.crassifolia, which like P.laueana is very close to P.utricularioides. But it sounds like it is actually intermediate between P.crassifolia and P.laueana.
When I visited the P.laueana site last April, we did find a few flowers which could be called scarlet I guess. Check out this picture on Eric's website which I took of P.laueana last year.
Check out the flower on the lower right. This is probably close to the flower color of P.ruticularioides. Wow, it sure must be a fantastic plant, I wonder when somebody is gonna finally return to the Sierra Azul to photograph this species and hopefully introduce it to cultivation...
So, what is the species count from Cuba?
I am still amazed at all of this(for as long as I have been into CP). Is it's climate very similar to Mexico to have so many species in small niches(I assume they are in small niches)?
Are there poorly botanized Caribbean islands awaiting future treasures? God, I can think of worse palces to go botanizing, lol!
The count is : P. filifolia
P. albida
P. jackii (extinct ?) P. jaraguana
P. infundibuliformis
P. caryophyllacea
P. bissei
P. benedicta
P. lignicola
P. cubensis
and maybe others waiting for their discover
Not bad for a "small" island isn't it
In culture : P. filifolia, P. albida, P. benedicta (in a german amateur collection only) and P. bissei (due to law restrictions between Cuba and Germany, only in Jena botanical garden and maybe herborized since).
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