These Phycella look surprisingly like my Cyrtanthus elatus Hybrids. Any thoughts? As mine are aging, the umbels are loosening up and the flowers are facing upwards more. I am not familiar with these Phycella species. But they sure look similar to the pics I posted last week on the Cyrtanthus Hybrids page. Matt Mattus Worcester, Massachusetts Zone 5 Light Snow today. 27 deg F On 12/18/04 11:12 AM, "Mary Sue Ittner" <msittner@mcn.org> wrote: > Dear All, > > Every day I look at what has been added to the wiki and make the > appropriate changes when needed. This morning there was a change on the a > that didn't make any sense (spaces were added), so I checked out the > history and saw that someone had started to write a note on this page and > then changed their mind and edited it again to take the note off and in > doing so had added spaces. The note said that Lee's pictures were not of > Phycella, that Phycella could not be imported from the Netherlands into the > USA. The writer suspected they were Cyrtanthus which was one of Lee's > suspicions. I looked through my messages to see if I could figure out what > we decided when we discussed it and all I could find was a subsequent note > from Lee that Alberto had told him these were not Phycella, but he couldn't > remember what he told him, maybe Rhodophiala. So we should have removed > this page and it dropped through the cracks. Before I do that, would some > of you take a look at it and let me know whether we should try to rename > them or just take them off. We have a lot of Cyrtanthus hybrid pictures so > if that is what it is, we could save one and say it was received as > Phycella, but is probabably..... That could help someone who had gotten > them like Lee and wondered what they were. Thanks to the mystery editor who > may or may not be on our list who alerted me. How I wish that some of the > recent bogus changes were as helpful. > > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… > > Mary Sue > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php