For the first time in many years, the plant I received ca. 1990 from Don Elick in Japan as Beauverdia sellowiana is flowering, mirabile dictu! I must have done something right, but I am not sure what! Looking on the PBS Wiki, I see a veritable bouquet of names that might apply to this besides the one I received it under: Nothoscordum dialystemon, N. felipponei, Ipheion dialystemon, Ipheion sellowianum, Tristagma sellowianum. It appears that a fundamental question which remains unanswered with certainty is whether the plant with eight tepals (aka N. dialystemon) is the same taxon as the plant with only six (aka N. felliponei), or a distinct taxon. The distinctions appear to be the number of tepals and the eight-tepal plant having much narrower leaves than the six-tepal plant, but these seem to me to be rather slender grounds on which to separate these plants as distinct taxa. Has there been any recent progress on untangling this tiny morass? DNA evidence, perhaps? -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Z. 7-8, cool Mediterranean climate