Jim: Good eyes...that does seem to indicate that their plant was incorrectly indentified. Tony Avent Plant Delights Nursery @ Juniper Level Botanic Garden 9241 Sauls Road Raleigh, North Carolina 27603 USA Minimum Winter Temps 0-5 F Maximum Summer Temps 95-105F USDA Hardiness Zone 7b email tony@plantdelights.com website http://www.plantdelights.com/ phone 919 772-4794 fax 919 772-4752 "I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself...at least three times" - Avent Jim McKenney wrote: > 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/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >