Dear James, Oh my goodness. I thought I could give this a quick look and had no idea how many pots of Romulea I had started since 1996 so looking through my data base took a long time. I have started over 100. Almost all of them came up (100 out of 112), whether it was my seed, commercial seed, seed from a friend or seed exchange seed but that doesn't really tell the whole story since some things germinated really well and some things germinated very poorly. Some things were gone within a year even though I had germination the first year. One year when I had a lot of seed of one of my favorite species I started half of it in September and half of it in December and had much superior results in September. Some of those things that germinated poorly I tried again to try to increase my stock when I had seed of my own. Sometimes I had much better luck and sometimes poor germination. Romulea hantamensis I tried 3 times and stratified, but none ever came up. There was a gorgeous apricot non named species from Silverhill Seeds and Namaqualand that germinated poorly the first time, but when it bloomed I saved seed of my own and had no luck with it and I have now lost all of it. No doubt a desert species wasn't happy living in a place with a lot of rain in winter even if I sheltered it from the worst of the rain. Seed exchange seed is the most likely to be misnamed. Of seed from IBS, NARGS, SIGMA, Scottish Rock Garden, Cal Hort 14 of 20 were not what they were supposed to be. It appears that a lot of people never bother to check the identity of their plants. So in that sense if you really want to get what you ordered it is safest to buy from a commercial source like Silverhill or get seed from someone you trust. Silverhill seed isn't always correctly named either (they buy from others they trust who occasionally provide misnamed seed and sometimes when they are collecting from an area they can't tell the species as it would be impossible a lot of years to visit when in bloom and when in seed so may go on past records), but you will at least get the country correct and have a much better percentage of accuracy. Mary Sue