Prodigious effort by a tiny bulb
macroclemys
10 years ago
I ordered a sonatini Belladonna, but must have received a Ballerina instead. This bulb is on a path to self destruction. It arrived with a circumference of only 16 cm, but has produced 2 healthy scapes, with 4 and 5 flowers. The second is only now opening, and the bulb has already shrunk to under 11 cm. And it still needs to find to resources to produce leaves. If this plant lives, it will have quite a hangover!
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