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Mary Sue Ittner (Tue, 03 Dec 2002 07:59:02 PST)

Dear All,

I think the Romulea seed from Charles Hardman gives everyone the
opportunity to practice how to key out plants. With the excellent online
article I referenced recently anyone who orders it can have a resource to
help. I bought some Romulea corms from Charles at the IBS auction and the
corms were not always the correct shape for the species on the tag. So I
have made notes for what the corm looks like and now await their bloom and
will try to figure out what they really are. Many Romuleas are wonderful so
I wouldn't be put off on getting the seed. I call mine Romulea sp. (id. as
Romulea atrandra from Hardman) and then I start looking at the description
of that one first and if it doesn't fit start at the beginning.

There are a lot of yellow Romuleas so those will give a lot of interesting
practice.

Mary Sue