Tom and all, Habranthus, Zephyranthes, Sprekelia, and Rhodophiala all seem to cross with one another, at least sometimes. There have been occasional articles on the bigeneric hybrids in Rain Lilies published in HERBERTIA over the years. Since Rhodophiala bifida is hardy here where I live, I would like to see someone using it to breed both rich red flower color and cold tolerance into some of the Rain Lilies. If someone is going to try this, a compilation of chromosome counts for the species in this group would be very handy. I don't plan to work in this area, but I would be happy to field test any potentially hardy Rain Lily hybrids that anyone creates. I unfortunately don't have pictures of any of the wide intergeneric hybrids that Margot made way back when. Regards, Jim Shields in central Indiana (USA), USDA zone 5 At 07:49 AM 11/21/2004 -0800, you wrote: >Jim, > >By any chance do you have a photo of any of the very wide crosses? > >To stretch the topic a bit, yesterday a few of us were discussing the lack >of good color in Habranthus, and the possibility of hybidizing some >in. You mention a bit on this on your web page. Do you know if this has >ever been done, and were there pictures taken of the resulting flower? > >Thanks > >Tom Glavich ************************************************* 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