Hi all, Many of you are not on Bulbs-L, so I apologize to those who are for this repeat posting. Ben Zonneveld at Leiden University has been looking at the nuclear DNA content of some of the Nerine in my collection. We need independent samples (fresh leaves) of the following species for comparisons: Nerine forbesii Nerine frithii Nerine gibsonii N. hesseoides I have a plant of N. forbesii (not a recognized species) that seems to be identical in leaf form and in DNA content to plants I received as N. laticoma. Neither of these two accessions however agrees with the DNA content of other N. laticoma that Ben had analyzed. I have N. gibsonii that does not agree with the DNA content of another gibsonii sample Ben had analyzed. My N. hesseoides may be N. frithii, but the DNA content seems to be off a little for frithii. You can contact Ben at: Ben J.M.Zonneveld Institute of Biology,Leiden University, Clusius lab Wassenaarse weg 64, 2333 AL Leiden, The Netherlands <Zonneveld@rulbim.Leidenuniv.NL> Fax: +31-71-5274999. I can trade offsets of my N. hesseoides and possibly of my gibsonii later this year; they are still in active growth at the moment. We hope you can help us out on this. Please contact Ben if you have fresh leaf material of the above mentioned species you can send to him. Regards, Jim Shields in central Indiana ************************************************* Jim Shields USDA Zone 5 Shields Gardens, Ltd. P.O. Box 92 WWW: http://www.shieldsgardens.com/ Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA Tel. ++1-317-867-3344 or toll-free 1-866-449-3344 in USA