To throw my two cents in...VIRUSED plants MUST BE Tossed in the garbage or burned. Keeping them around will, undoubtedly, infect other plants of the Amaryllidaceae, and could even infect other nearby gardens (eg. a neighbor's bed a few houses down...). Throughout the state of Florida I've come across plantings (Hippeastrum, Hymenocallis and Crinum) that show tremendous signs of the virus. I'd pull the plants up, but the city, homeowner and/or business owners would probably think I was a vandal! I had probably thrown away 100 plants my first few years of growing. Some might not have been infected, but if it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck...I reduced my collection to just a few genera and then re-expanded with a move from the country to the town, when in Gainesville. In the past few years since relocating to St. Petersburg, FL I have thrown away less than a dozen containers, half of which probably did not have the mosaic but were from the same lot and I did not want to take a chance. After a long pursuit of a "virus-free" (in reality, a plant is never completely clean of some sort of pathogen) collection, I am almost there. Last year it showed up in an accession of Phaedranasssa dubia, which was tossed immediatley. Tissue culture of the basal plat meristem (the point from which new growth cells arise) can provide virus free ex plants, in theory. But, you have to get the very point where cells are most rapidly dividing and then you can get to the "clean cells" before the virus does. I'd be curious to know if they are then more virus resistant than the infected mother plant??? These viruses can cross into just about any genus of the New World amaryllids, in my assumption. It obviuosly affects a few of the African genera, but is not as widespread throughout the Old World amaryllids I have been told that it does not affect Zephyranthes and Habranthus, but I could not determine this as the leaves are just to darn thin to evaluate. So, a plant can be replaced, a collection on the other hand is much harder to replace! Spring is on it's way here, as red maples are blooming and red buds are coming along, too. I have already seen Zephyranthes atamasco has started to bloom in the wild already! and, most of my native Florida spider lilies are beginning growth (wether on the dry bench or out in the open). Kevin Preuss http://www.amaryllis-plus.com/