Musella lasiocarpa (A. R. Franchet) C. Y. Wu ex H. W. Li

musella001 Musella lasiocarpa flowering in cultivation in Yunnan, China, single inflorescence.
musella002 Musella lasiocarpa flowering in cultivation in Yunnan, China, two inflorescences.
musella003 Musella lasiocarpa vegetative plant in cultivation in UK.
musella004 Musella lasiocarpa flowering "in the wild" in Yunnan, China.  Botanists think that Musella is extinct in the wild in China and maintained only in cultivation by farmers and as an ornamental.  This isolated clump growing apparently wild may be an escape from or a relict of cultivation.
musella005 Musella lasiocarpa flowering sequence of plant in cultivation in UK











            

 


last revision 14 January 2004