Love the name. mega--big skepasma--clothing erythro--ed chlamys--cloak On 01/02/17, Jane Sargent wrote: Well, in my Massachusetts garden, nothing at all is flowering. That´s easy. I´m in the south of Mexico for a short break, and that´s another story. The only bulbs flowering in my yard here, and this will change, are cannas and a wealth of heliconias, including some very large ones. The most spectacular plant blooming in the garden today is a shrub, Megakepasma erythrochlamys, allegedly native to the Venezuelan rain forest, but transported here (by shady means, I think) as cuttings, from the western part of Belize. They didn´t die, but they didn´t do much their first two years with me. Then they cut loose. https://naturalezatropical.blogspot.mx/2016/04/… I did not take these pictures, but they are accurate. My two specimens are about 10 ft. high, dense, shiny bright green, with unspeakably outrageous red panicles a foot long or longer. They flower for months. The ants mostly leave them alone. I have never done anything nice for them, such as pruning or fertilizing. One gets more than half a day of sun, and the other gets only small amounts. There is very little soil here covering the limestone. It´s just not a bulb. Happy 2017 to all. Jane _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/