Peter Tristram ... "Hi Bruce, I got it from a friend of Lotte, in Austria. She took me to visit him (Herr Walter Truchlich). He had a great collection and spent time in Mexico so it might have been one of his collections." Bruce Dunstan ... "Thanks for the information. I noticed the spelling with the K in the German Journal. I guess one day we should think about a cultivar name for this plant. Like a small version of T. Ron?. First flowering for me, usually this plant is more interested in multiplying. I have another from you from the same source that has much thinner leaves, also flowered but I didn't get to take a photo, sadly."
Bruce Dunstan 12/21
Bruce Dunstan 12/21 T. 'Truchlik' always remind me of these Tapeinocheilos brassii, a backscratcher ginger from PNG.
Bruce Dunstan 01/24
Bruce Dunstan 12/22 "My current favourite ionantha. It looks very different when young with very thin recurving leaves."
Garry May 11/24
Garry May 11/25
Peter Tristram ... "For ionantha lovers, I visited Walter Truchlik, with Lotte Hromadnik, in 2009. He had a diverse collection of both his collections and those of others. This ionantha was a standout and he sold me one. It was a good progator, so many will have it.
Labels should include provenance but I guess that is too often left off. PT/Truch or the like.
Imagine dragging hundreds of brom species all over Europe, cataloguing, labelling, making the inventories with hundreds of species and sending to AQIS and Chris in Mebourne, treating, packing into many suitcases and boxes often in a hotel room, flying to Melbourne, dealing with AQIS, hopefully avoiding the dreaded MeBr gas, stressed and jetlagged going through inspection and aguments, dipping potentially thousands of plants, lugging to quarantine where 99% would live if dipped, way fewer if gassed, waiting 3 months or more, then finally getting the treasures!! Easy? NO! Expensive, Yes."
