Details for: NA 34077, Paramongaia weberbaueri Velarde, Longwood 1965-0522


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Paramongaia weberbaueri Velarde
Top Name:
Longwood 1965-0522
Origin:
Collected – Ancash, Peru
Maintained:
National Arboretum
Received by NPGS:
08 Mar 1972
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Form Received:
Plant
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Life Habit:
Forb
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Paramongaia weberbaueri Velarde
Top Name:
Longwood 1965-0522
Origin:
Collected – Ancash, Peru
Maintained:
National Arboretum
Received by NPGS:
08 Mar 1972
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Form Received:
Plant
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Life Habit:
Forb
Source History
Collected
22 January 1965.
Ancash, Peru
Locality: Huaraz Province, Pariacoto District: Slopes just above the village of Pariacoto.
Elevation: 3048m.
Habitat: Wild Habitat
Environment description: Extremely steep slopes. The soil appeared to be of a decomposing granitic nature and supported a very sparse desert-like vegetation.
Comment: "The magnificent flowers reminded one of giant daffodils approximately 15 cm in diameter. They were butter yellow with a very fragrant aroma. [...] The plants were blooming before the presence of mature foliage. None of the 7 bulbs collected showed evidence of off-sets. The two larger bulbs were to 6.5 cm in diameter and were flowering plants. Five younger pre-flowering bulbs ranged from 2 to 3 cms in diameter. The young foliage exhibited a marvelous fresh-light green, very clean appearance in an area where other growing things were dry and dull looking, or grayish colored cacti." Large quantities of plants confined to a restricted area less than 500 hectares in extent. "Collection of a few individual plants was a difficult task. Combined with the extremely steep topography of nearly 100 percent grade, a slipping hard granular soil surface and very little protective support, digging the plants with bulb depths of 25 to 30 cms with a crowbar-like tool was a real challenge."
Collector(s):
Donated
08 March 1972.
Pennsylvania, United States

Donor(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
Longwood 1965-0522
Type: Donor identifier
Longwood Gardens accession number.
Longwood Gardens

NA 34077
Type: Site identifier
Group: NA
U.S. National Arboretum

Narrative
Excerpt from American Horticulturist Vol. 54 No. 6, pp. 30-32, regarding this material: "To date, only two introductions of this species are known to exist in the U.S.A. They consist of the above introduction [the present accession, NA 34077] and an earlier one [see NA 34076] in 1949 when several bulbs from Peru were received for identification by Dr. Hamilton P. Traub of the Plant Life Society in Southern California. He flowered the bulb and set seed which he then distributed. Longwood Gardens received some of these seeds in 1957 and grew several bulbs from this first introduction from Huarmey. The plant first flowered at Longwood in 1966." Card notes: "Accession 65522 begins growth somewhat later [than Longwood 572124, NA 34076] and flowers end of Nov., Dec., and first of Jan. Work is being done to get both accessions to begin growth and bloom together. [...] The plant of accession 572124 [see NA 34076] flowers usually the last two weeks of Oct., first two weeks of Nov. Water freely until the foliage begins to die back considerably, then gradually dry off. Plants of this accession begin dying back about the end of Jan., beginning of Feb. After the foliage dies back bulbs should be stored in a cool, dry location, either in vermiculite or left in the pot. After remaining dry most of the summer, the bulbs begin to show signs of new growth about the first week of Oct. Bulbs in vermiculite should then be potted, and bulbs still in pots should be top dressed or repotted. Temperatures during storage (summer) run 65 deg. to 75 deg. Humidity 20 to 40 percent. When growth begins in October, temperatures begin 70 to 75 deg., Nov. and Dec. 65 to 75 deg., Jan. and Feb. 65 to 70 deg. Humidity approx. 65 percent." According to B. Evans, material of this accession extant in 2024 derives from at least one generation of seed from the original plants, but the parent plants (which were lettered A and B) have long flowered later than NA 34076 and seem to conform to NA 34077.
Paramongaia weberbaueri Velarde
Genus:
Paramongaia
Family:
Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily:
Amaryllidoideae
Tribe:
Clinantheae
Nomen number:

26746
Place of publication:

Lilloa 17:491. 1949
Verified:
Name not verified.
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