Roy, Your photos look great. If you are ever able to share or sell bulbs, I would love some. I have turned my backyard into a mini-forest and have been trying to buy these for years. When I walk on the Rail Trail on the Niagara Escarpment, I see them growing very well, with lots of blossoms. I'm guessing that they like the limestone. Frustratingly, there is no one around here that I know of who sells them. Barbara McMullen Hamilton, Ontario Canada -----Original Message----- From: Roy Herold via pbs Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2014 10:57 AM To: Pacific Bulb Society Subject: [pbs] Erythronium americanum BX 364 Folks, I've been meaning to post an update to the status of the huge population of Erythronium americanum that I found this spring. Browse through my album of pictures on Flickr to see what they looked like: https://flickr.com/photos/31950571@N06/… These are growing alongside the Aberjona River in Woburn MA, near a rather dull industrial area (note the abandoned tractor trailer). There are tens of thousands of individual plants, although the number of distinct clones is probably small due to their stoloniferous nature. I found one area that was threatened by a dirt bike track and thought it was worth saving a few plants. Towards the end of the album are some bulbs I dug in early May that show how deeply they grow, and the stolons forming on the non-blooming ones that were closer to the surface. The bulbs for the BX were dug after the foliage had gone dormant. I was amazed to find a dense tangle of spaghetti-like stolons, each of which had a little bulb forming at the tip. I threw them in a plastic bag and brought them home, where they sat for a few weeks. When I unwrapped them, the spaghetti strands had dried up and the little bulbs had tripled in size. Most curious. Enjoy, --Roy NW of Boston 90F today _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/