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Some Aurelian lilies blooming Here this past week. 

Quote from: Uli on June 25, 2024, 01:12:37 AMLilium Vico Gold
Raised by Sir Peter Smithers as Lilium sulphureum as one parent, this was once only available in the trade. It is very tall and needs a few careful staking and is best in shade in my climate. It is fragrant.
However, I sometimes wonder if I have not been sold the hybrid African Queen instead. The apricot touch makes me think this. But I am not a Lily specialist, is there someone around who would be able to tell them apart?

Hi Uli, i grow a few lilies but not this one. I passed your question on to a fellow lily enthusiast who grows Vico Gold and he agrees with you, too orange and likely African Queen. Plant Delights sells Vico Gold

Bessera ramirezii , recently separated from Bessera elegans

https://www.biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.512.4.2

Stenomesson flavum, coll. north of Lima Peru, van der Werf et al. 14458
Winter leaves, mid summer flowers

Hippeastrum solandriflorum
Been waiting 8 years for a bloom. Long flowers 

Sprecklia howardii a few days ago 

Some small white Stenomesson from Peru blooming now.

Caliphriria (Stenomesson) korsakofii 3-6" tall with pure white flowers and pollen

Pucara (Stenomesson) leucanthum 12-14" tall
With white flowers, yellow pollen and an internal cup like a daffodil.

I hope they make nice babies.

Here they are in Kentucky

Resnova megaphylla. Just emerging

Resnovia maxima (aff.?)- Umfolozi

Resnova pilosa,  Luneburg

A few Eucrosia in bloom together in the garage under lights

Left tall E aurantiaca
Center red E eucrosides - Ponas-Zaruma
Right E mirabilis with yellow petals

Lower right little red
Urceolina peruviana/Stenomeson miniatum

Hippeastrum evansii in last pic

Cyrtanthus falcatus x Cyrt. herrei
A bulb i received from Roy Herald in 2018 he grew from seed Ken Blackford donated in BX239.  

Is it a cross? 
https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/CyrtanthusSpeciesTwo#falcatus

Tends to grow in warm weather A d can have the strange colored flowers and typical crooks neck. 

https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/CyrtanthusSpeciesTwo#herrei

Tends to grow in cool weather. 

When it was smaller it remained evergreen bit this winter it went dormant a d now a flower! 

When is your deadline for submitting seed to the USA SX

Tristagma violaceum, ex Nothoscordum sp. Flores & Watson 8485, Santiago, seed from BX 476 in 2021 is blooming for the first time. About 5-6" tall  

My first thought was it looked like Nothoscordum gracile which makes numerous tiny offsets can invade a collection or lawn if you ever had one or got one in a mislabel and reuse any soil. I hope this is better behaved.