I'll respond on this on PBS instead of Alpine-L because it's easier (no "confirmation request"). Like John Lonsdale, I have not been able to tell much difference between material received as various varieties of Leucojum autumnale. Those received as var. oporanthum seem to have more red pigment in the stems, though. I suspect that the material in cultivation is largely hybridized. L. autumnale sets copious seed and self-sows readily, often flowering the third year from sowing. In fact, it is a bit of a weed in my bulb frames, though easy to extract at midsummer repotting time because it is already in grown then and can be told from things into whose pots it has sneaked. In the garden, it gets wiped out about every 5 years by a cold winter. Last year I sent leaf samples of, I think, all my Leucojums to Alan Meerow, who is doing DNA studies of some European amaryllids now. Perhaps he will eventually sort this out for us. Another fall Leucojum is starting to flower here: L. valentinum, which is absolutely pure white and a bit larger than L. autumnale. Another fall-bloomer is L. roseum, which must be grown frost-free. I can't seem to please the spring-flowering common garden species L. vernum and L. hiemale, probably because they don't like soils that dry out in summer as much as they do here; I often see large colonies of them in lower-elevation gardens in this area where the soil is heavier. My plants stay alive but rarely flower. There are two exquisite spring-blooming small ones, L. trichophyllum (which has an even better pink form) and L. nicaeense (late spring). We are just now starting to grow L. longifolium in North America thanks to recent AGS seed. Jane McGary NW Oregon