I have to inject a word of caution about this species if you live in Southern California. In 1992 I obtained bulbs under the name of Romulea romiflora. They propagated mightily and soon proved to be very invasive. It was probably a 3-year project to eliminate the last of them from neighbouring containers and even from the vegetable beds. Perhaps the plant was misidentified but I don't believe it was the recognized invasive, R. rosea, which I have also grown. I have one photo of the plant, taken in the pre-digital era, which I attach, but I am not sure that it is not the well-behaved R. grandiscarpa. AD On Mar/08/11 08:46 , "Mary Sue Ittner" <msittner@mcn.org> wrote: >Hi, > >One of the wonderful thing about having a bulb list with >knowledgeable people around the world is that we have many people who >can help us identify the plants we grow from seed. Angelo Porcelli >supplied me with information allowing me to correct the species name >of some Romulea plants that a number of us have been growing as aff. >bulbocodium even though the description of that species has a stigma >overtopping the stamens and in these plants the stigma and the >stamens are the same height. > >Angelo says these plants are instead Romulea ramiflora which has a >rather wide distribution in Spain, Portugal, France, Italy and >Greece. Since one of the photos on the wiki showed the back of the >tepals and the bracts (often an important identification feature of >Romulea species) and since he has the key (in Italian that he can >read) he can confirm what they are. This illustrates the importance >mentioned in recent posts of having photos on the wiki that show >distinctive characteristics (not just a close-up of the flowers). > >This is an easy plant to grow and I am very fond of it and I'm sure >I've probably given seed and corms to the BX with the wrong name. So >if you have received Romulea bulbocodium corms or seed from me from >the BX, please go to the wiki page and figure out whether what you >have is the real species or Romulea ramiflora instead. ><http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… >eanRomuleas> > >Mary Sue > >_______________________________________________ >pbs mailing list >pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/