It's beautiful!

Wow! Different shades of color, that's for sure!

Great photos Donna.

What model camera do you use?

Alan,

It's just a Sony cyber -shot; 12.1 mega pixels and I actually have it turned down to 7.1 because the pictures are so large. It takes a better picture when it set on the 12.1. These days the pixels go sky high but just how many do you need for just amateur photography?? I have a couple of them as they are so easy to tote around they are several years old but still sell them on EBay. They use memory cards which you have to buy online these days but I save all my memory cards and have all my pictures saved from when I first went digital, just in case!! This camera doesn't have a very good zoom, I have a different camera which does but don't seem to use it much..

Thanks,

Donna

That is very nice Donna and I agree with Alan that the pics are nicely done too.

I love the color and the veining!
K

It's pretty Donna! They both have their own charm.

Donna:
Both very nice. But the veining of the Telos bulb looks more pronounced ie more contrast.
Ben

".I can hope for 4 the next time around"

Of course, we can hope. Here are just auliÃÂum known fact that he has two flowers per stem: (

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This post was edited by oleg9grower on Sat, Apr 12, 14 at 15:15

Here is a tray of seedlings from this aulicum (Telos) x papilio that are just about the only real success I've had this season in the pollinating department. So far I've had a few other seedpods that yielded some viable seeds but they don't seem to be vigorous like these are so I am quite pleased with these!!

Donna

What a beautiful orange color!!!!

Wow Donna I love it. I just got an aulicum from telos about 2 weeks ago. I hope mine looks like yours when it flowers. Keep me posted on those seedlings. If they do well I might try A Papilio cross when mine fowers.

Mine bloomed for me at the very end of Oct with the perfect color,just in time for Halloween! It took forever for the seedpods to ripen which I find is usually the case when papilio is in the cross. So that would make it around the middle of December when they ripened so these seedlings are only 4 1/2 months old and they already have their 3rd leaf. I will admit that I germinated these immediately and about 2 months later I did a few more seeds but the seeds that I started initially did much better than the seeds that were a few months old. Those continue to struggle while the first ones are jobbing out. I gave half of the seeds to the generous poster who send me some of her frozen papilio pollen otherwise I wouldn't have been able to make this cross!

Donna

You might want to freeze some papilio pollen if you have the opportunity since I believe that aulicum is naturally a fall bloomer.

Donna,

My first papilio bulb refused to rebloom so I got a new one this year. It only made two flowers but whatever pollen it made is in the freezer. I was saving some for my Johnsonii. They are planted in the ground so they bloom later than everyone else. I will make sure to save some for October to put on Aulicum.

Louana