At 01:58 27-08-2005, Adam Fikso wrote: > None of my other hymenocallises had all buds open at once, usually one at >a time, in sequence,so that while one was fading and dying, another was >taking its place-- does anyone know if this is unusual? This specimen is >pot-grown from a bulb I got from Guy Wrinkle. I don't know if the bulb is >maximum size. > > Last year, I had an unidentified Hymenocallis grown outdoors with 11 >buds-- all of which opened in sequence with no more than 2 open at any one >time. I have not seen any comment in the literature about the sequence of >opening nor much about number of flowers , which could be a somewhat >reliable and stable taxonomic feature for the field not derivable from >herbarium specimens. Comment? I know that "amaryllis" generally, but not always, open sequentially, and so did the one ismene I have. Other "amaryllis" my children have open sequentially. There was a lady near here in Denmark some years back who had 10 flowers on her "amaryllis" and all open at once. It was in the newspaper, it was so unusual. Carol