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<> Clivia Plants named Daruma, with especially broad leaves <>

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In Japan or China, as people find the beauty of C.miniata in its
leaves (not in its flowers), they have made great efforts to breed
the strain that has short and broad leaves. In Japan, we call this
strain "Daruma". The "Daruma" strain is a unique result of clivia
breeding. I think we can also breed similar cultivars like "Daruma"
with short, broad and hard leaves by using C.nobilis in the breeding.

I guess that the Japanese "Daruma" strain was bred from Belgian or
German C.miniata hybrids with long but broad leaves. However, I have
no idea how people found C.miniata with broad leaves in the habitat.
Consequently, I just wonder if Belgian or German breeders bred the
broad leaf strain by using colchicines or a growth retardant. Anyway,
I believe that we can breed new cultivars with leaves that are hard
like C.nobilis, broad like "Daruma" and also that have Akebono
variegation. We can not call this new cultivar C.nobilis in the
correct sense, as these are actually C.nobilis hybrids.
Mr. Nakamura was early to spot this idea, and he has bred variegated
hybrids with hard leaves from the hybridization of C.miniata with
Akebono variegation x C.nobilis, and C.miniata with Fukurin
variegation x C.nobilis.
(Shigetaka Sasaki and Revised by Ms. Helen Marriott)
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/clivia.3/nobinobi.html


<Types>
HIME DARUMA (Princess Daruma), CHABO DARUMA, SHIMA DARUMA
[little clivia , very little clivia and stripe leaf Daruma]

<> HIME DARUMA <>
became widely known after it was introduced by MR SUSUMU MIMURO in
the magazine "Hobby Gardening". They are quite a few variety
including many striped ones and each has different name. However, it
is rather difficult to come across what appears in magazines. Those
with unique characteristics can be identified easily, but at the same
time there are quite a few species which cannot easily be identified
as one particular kind.

Look at some beautiful pictures.
http://www8.plala.or.jp/clivia/hime1.htm
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/clivia.3/nakamura%20hime%20daruma.html
http://www.drkeithhammett.co.nz/CliviaCatalogue/Large/Kobito.htm
http://www.drkeithhammett.co.nz/CliviaCatalogue/Large/SmallTalk.htm


<> Shigetaka Sasaki <>
(Japanese Clivia breeder and Yoshikazu Nakamura associate)
Excerpt from a Clivia Symposium.
Shigetaka showed us the many different styles of Japanese Clivia
breeding including the Daruma strain with broad short leaves and
showed us a small rounded bodied doll which is what the word "Daruma"
means. He also explained the many variegation types including Fukurin
(broad green central stripe), Shima-fu (Striated), Akebono-Fu (looks
airbrushed yellow and green), Negishi-Fu (very fine striations), Naka-
Fu (pale yellow midrib), Tora-Fu (White lateral bands-like a tiger
and very prized.), Genpei-Fu (?). Shige went on to talk about
Yoshikazu Nakamura's breeding work using 'Vico Yellow' and then
showed 4 hybrids produced from it: 'Chiba Orange', 'Chiba
Yellow', 'Waved-Petal Yellow' and 'Rolled Petal Orange'. The one
problem noted regarding these hybrids was their large size given the
Japanese preference for smaller plants.
Read more about the symposium here:
http://www.smgrowers.com/info/cliviasymp.asp

<> Beautful Chabo Daruma Clivia <>
This Clivia labled Chabo-Daruma was on display at the Clivia
Symposium. Shigetaka Sasaki, who spoke on the Clivia hybridization
work being done in Japan had explained that the Daruma strain of
Clivia got their name from a small squat doll called a Daruma. These
dolls were often associated with Buddist temples and were a of happy
fortune.
http://www.smgrowers.com/info/cliviasympdaruma.asp


Look at other Clivia Plants.
http://homepage3.nifty.com/plantsandjapan/page061.html
Big picture of a Daruma plant in full bloom.
http://homepage3.nifty.com/plantsandjapan/page074.html


I collected some in my Photo Album called SHIZEN Nature.
http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/gabigreve2000/album?.dir=/d5af


For all you flower lovers, Daruma is right with you!

Greetings from Japan
Gabi san