Hi Dave and all,

According to Alan Meerow's DNA studies, the Nerines
are embedded in the
ancient African clade while Lycoris are part of the
Eurasian clade, which
also includes Narcissus and Galanthus.

Nerine is most closely related to Crinum, Amaryllis,
and Brunsvigia, e.g.
bigenerics like Amarine.

Now I have seen plants 30 or so years ago, produced
by Ms. Margot Williams
at USDA using embryo rescue, the reperesented such
wide crossdes aas you
suggest. One was and African Crinum X Hippeastrum.
If that cross can be
made to work, Nerine X Lycoris could too, I'd bet.
But you would probably
have to be willing to use embryo rescue. Go for it!

The Crinum X Hippeastrum was a weirdly distorted
plant. It looked like the
genes were not at all happy to be sharing the same
cell nucleus.

Regards,
Jim Shields
in central Indiana