Tony Avent wrote “Either the bulb we grow today as L. straminea or the bulb that Inariyama grew as this species was incorrect, as the plant we grow today is not the parent of L. squamigera.” Take a look at the paper Jim Waddick provided - at p. 128, right hand column, last paragraph, just above the image of chromosome smears. That paragraph seems to be saying that the plant described in Takemura (in speculating on the parentage of L. squamigera in 1961) as L. straminea was in fact what we now know as L. longituba ver. longituba. Here’s what the text says “…Lycoris squamigera clustered together with L. shaanxiensis was considered as an apparent hybrid between L. straminea (now characterized as L. longituba var. longituba) and L. sprengeri (Takemura, 1961). “ Inariyama in 1948 and Takemura in 1961 would not have known about L. longituba – L. longituba was not described until 1974. Jim McKenney jimmckenney@jimmckenney.com Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, 39.03871º North, 77.09829º West, USDA zone 7 My Virtual Maryland Garden http://www.jimmckenney.com/ BLOG! http://mcwort.blogspot.com/ Webmaster Potomac Valley Chapter, NARGS Editor PVC Bulletin http://www.pvcnargs.org/ Webmaster Potomac Lily Society http://www.potomaclilysociety.org/