Dear All, Since we have a lot of new members of our list, I'd like to refer you to our Mystery bulb page: http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… There are a lot of pictures on that page that have been there a very long time. Can anyone help us figure them out? I have added a mystery Romulea. Recently there was talk of misnamed pictures on the Internet and I think it is really easy to do if you have a plant from a trusted source and inadequate reference books to help you sort out whether the name is correct or not. This Romulea was first grown from Alpine Garden seed Joyce shared with me under the name Romulea linaresii. I never questioned it and even put a picture on the wiki labeled this (Ouch!) But I have since acquired The Smaller Bulbs by Brian Mathew and The World of Iridaceae (sorry Alberto, but it has information, perhaps wrong, but more than some of my other books on many irids). In those books I learned the flower is either 1.5cm long or 2-2.5cm long. Both say it has a violet throat. Mathew says the inner bract is papery and red spotted and the stamens overtop the style. My plants have a orangy yellow throat, the style is even with the stamens and the inner bract is green with a membranous margin and the flower is bigger so it's not that. Since all the R. bulbocodiums have the characteristic that the stigmas overtop the stamens, it can't be that. The second batch of seed came from a NARGS seed exchange as Romulea ramiflora. It looks like the same plant to me and they both started flowering on the very same day! Mathew describes it as a rather unattractive tall species with small flowers. This is not a tall species and the flowers are much bigger than described and I think it is charming. Innes describes it as having externally greenish-yellow segments, but also with 3 bright violet longitudinal lines. Mine are greenish-yellow, but no lines. This book mentions a subsp. gaditana, syn. Romulea gaditana, syn. R. linaresii var. gaditana, syn. R. ramiflora var gigantea that has bigger flowers, but the throat is described as pale green and the outer segments green. Mine are not like that. Looking on the IBS bulb gallery there is a picture that looks like mine taken by Dirk Wallace and labeled as R. nivalis. The size is right, the color is right according to Mathew (violet to lilac with a yellow throat) and the inner bract is right. But he describes the leaves as stiffly erect and short and these leaves are neither. My picture doesn't look like Tony Goode's picture of that species on the wiki. On the IBS site and others there is a picture of a white flowered plant for this species and Bryan's Bulbs describes it as white tipped lilac, throat yellow, late spring. Innes describes this species as yellow throat, segments tipped bluish-violet with white area below and says it flowers from November to January (which isn't late spring.) This description sounds like Tony's picture. Phillips and Rix shows very erect leaves and the outside of the flowers which also look different. So, can anyone tell me what this plant really is? Robin, help. It is obviously making its way around the seed exchanges. It blooms quickly from seed and has been easy for me to grow. It was already getting pollinated as my picture shows and this was the first day it was open. I'll probably have some to share with the BX, but only if I know what it really is. Thanks for any help. Mary Sue