Description
Rhodophiala bifida Pipinas is a form which we distributed many years ago and which did the rounds before it was eventually given an RHS Award of Merit in 2002. The stock offered is raised from Jim Archibald’s seed (JJA.2.780.510) of those plants, themselves raised from seed originally.
We believe that Pipinas is in fact one of the original four forms first introduced by Dr. Patricio O’Farrell each from a distinct geographical area within the wider range of the species (granatiflora, Liebig, Pan de Azucar, Pipinas).
Very hardy with superb umbels of brilliant red, funnel shaped flowers with yellow anthers on 20cm-30cm tall stems in September.
We do our best on these to send what we think are flowering sized bulbs but like many Amaryllidaceae, this can refuse to flower, after disturbance, in its first year after planting. Thus a slightly smaller, non-flowering sized bulb will grow and establish and then flower in the same year as a flowering-sized one which has sulked for a year.
