As promised, here are pictures of two different besseae sites I have been to in Ecuador. the first one is the Paute site. The Paute River runs through Ecuador, these plants are found on the hill/cliffs about the river. These pictures were taken about a month ago.
These pictures were taken at the Chigllinda site (pronounced Chew-in-da). This site is quite different from the Paute site. It is much wetter and not as overgrown. Water is dripping constantly from the cliffs. Very wet. These pictures were taken one year ago.
The shape of the flowers are a bit different, with the paute plants having better shape.
These final two pictures show that in the wild, you can find plants that arn't stoloniferous. This plants has two growths and there is no stolon.
Tom Kalina believes that in this population there has been some natural hybridizing with dalessandroi. I have not been back to the site since him and I discussed the possibility, so I can't say for sure.
Kyle
These pictures were taken at the Chigllinda site (pronounced Chew-in-da). This site is quite different from the Paute site. It is much wetter and not as overgrown. Water is dripping constantly from the cliffs. Very wet. These pictures were taken one year ago.
The shape of the flowers are a bit different, with the paute plants having better shape.
These final two pictures show that in the wild, you can find plants that arn't stoloniferous. This plants has two growths and there is no stolon.
Tom Kalina believes that in this population there has been some natural hybridizing with dalessandroi. I have not been back to the site since him and I discussed the possibility, so I can't say for sure.
Kyle
