Dear Doug I must say that I have never heard of this Veltheimia. Where does it come from? Veltheimia capensis comes from a very wide range of localities - from 50km north of Cape Town right into the Little Karoo and up to the Orange River on the border with Namibia. This means that it grows in some pretty wet areas right through to an area that gets maybe 100mm (4 inches) of rain, so it is possible that forms from different areas have variable characteristics. It will be interesting to see the flower. Regards Rachel Saunders Cape Town ----- Original Message ----- From: Douglas Westfall <eagle85@flash.net> To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 4:18 AM Subject: [pbs] Veltheimia deasii > I have a mature Veltheimia deasii sending up a flower spike - so what is > unusual about that? NOTHING! The interesting part is that there are eleven > (11) leaves which. are narrower and more undulated than V. capensis. That > is several more than Veltheimia capensis. YET, the "experts" are > maintaining that it is just a variation of V. capensis. > > I can hardly wait for the thing to bloom so that I can compare it with V. > capensis. > > Does anyone have any thoughts on the subject? > > Doug Westfall > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php