Well, after a misguided bit of enthusiasm a few months ago when I uploaded a bunch of photos to the wiki, Mary Sue finally prodded me enough to finish commenting all of them, with a huge amount of help from her. I just want to state again a huge amount of kudos to her and all the work she does making the wiki such a wonderful resource. Anyway, below are the comments from all the photos I uploaded to the wiki. There are also a couple of pics I put on the Mystery Bulbs page. --Lee Poulsen Pasadena area, California, USDA Zone 9-10 ===================================== Calydorea coelestina (syn: Sphenostigma coelestinum) is a very rare endemic native to Florida, with a common name of Bartram's Ixia. (Which means the genus isn't entirely native to South America I guess.) When I got this it came labelled as Sphenostigma coelestinum. But I was just looking at the latest Plant Delights catalog for 2004 and they now list it as a Calydorea. A beautiful purple flower that opens in the morning and is closed by evening, but new ones keep opening on subsequent days. Flower is about 2 inches (5 cm) across. Photo taken Sept. 2003 by Lee Poulsen. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… Cryptostephanus vansonii grown from seed from Rachel Saunders. For me it grows very similarly to Clivia, but doesn't require as much shade. The flowers do have a pinkish cast to some of them. Photo taken August 2003 by Lee Poulsen. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… Cypella herbertii ssp. brevicristata, the more common sub species, flowers yellow or orange; the stigma lobes are short. I think mine are of this subspecies. They are easy to grow, and mine just keeps blooming all summer long. Photo taken August 2003 by Lee Poulsen. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… (Cyrtanthus sanguineus X Cyrtanthus loddigesianus) X Cyrtanthus sanguineus. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… From IBS BX seed from Gerrit Oskam in 2001. These are the first flowers to appear. They're about 2 inches in diameter at the mouth. Photo taken July 2003 by Lee Poulsen. - Although another bulb had a scape of the same cream color above, a third bulb had these salmon colored flowers. Photo taken August 2003 by Lee Poulsen. - Here are both colors at the same time. - And yet a slightly different color appeared in the same pot of seedlings, this one a more stunning shade of red. Photo taken September 2003 by Lee Poulsen. - http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… Globba schomburgkii likes warm moist weather and partial shade. Photo taken September 2003 by Lee Poulsen. - Globba winitti 'Mauve Dancing Girl' is another pretty Globba that also likes warm moist weather. Photo taken September 2003 by Lee Poulsen. - Globba winitti 'White Dragon' another pretty color variant. Photo taken September 2003 by Lee Poulsen. - http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… Griffinia liboniana hyb. Close-ups of this species. A beautiful flower and color. Photos taken August 2003 by Lee Poulsen. - And this picture shows the leaves - Habranthus x floryi 'Purple Base'. Beautiful and enormous flower, almost 4 inches (10 cm) across. Photo taken Sept. 2003 by Lee Poulsen - Habranthus 'X' hybrid (ex. Yucca Do). This is the name Yucca Do gave when they sold it. I don't think they indicated what they thought it was a hybrid of. It looks somewhat similar to several other pink Habranthuses that are blooming at the moment. Photo taken Sept. 2003 by Lee Poulsen. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… Hymenocallis sonorensis is found along streams and valleys throughout Sonora, Mexico. Photo taken Sept. 2003 by Lee Poulsen http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… These came to me as Leucojum autumnale var. oporanthum, but they look just like the ones Bob photographed. Photos taken Sept. 2003 by Lee Poulsen. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… Manfreda sp. (ex Yucca Do). One of a number of Manfredas offered by Yucca Do. The flowers are at the top of a long, 4-foot, scape and have very long stamens. The label on this one has gotten lost, so I don't know which species it is. The leaves are mottled as many in this genus are. Photo taken Sept. 2003 by Lee Poulsen. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… The dark “oxblood lily” form of Rhodophiala bifida grown in Texas. It flowers in autumn before leaves. It is well known by its strong offsetting habit and no seed production. The color form of this variant is found in a population of the Province of Entre Rios, Argentina. Here is an image of this type from bulbs obtained from Old House Gardens. They get their stock from heirloom bulbs found in Texas. Photo taken August 2003 by Lee Poulsen. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… Tigridia pavonia. This is a red form, from a collection made by Yucca Do (#T73-33) at a much lower, and hotter, elevation than what they claim the typical form the Dutch have propagated was collected from. (Apparently, none of the Dutch ones survive at their nursery located in Central Texas; this one does, and multiplies as well.) It is very large, approx. 6 inches (15 cm) across. Photo taken Sept. 2003 by Lee Poulsen. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… ========================================= Two different mystery bulbs http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… 1. This came labelled as Habranthus (Rhodophiala) andicola. Is it a Habranthus? Or is it a Rhodophiala? Photo taken Sept. 2003 by Lee Poulsen. 2. This was sent to me by a guy who found it growing in a big naturalized clump in El Paso, Texas. He was wondering if it is Hippeastrum xjohnsonii. Photo taken Sept. 2003 by Lee Poulsen. ========================================= Finally, there was a third mystery bulb that Alberto has identified and Mary Sue put it on the appropriate page. Trimezia steyermarkii was identified by Alberto Castillo as the plant blooming for Lee Poulsen in September 2003 in a pot without a label. Alberto states it is a well known Caribbean plant widely used in landscaping in the New World tropics http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…