Dear All, I was very busy during the time you were having your discussion prompted by John Connell's question about his plant and whether it was Oxalis succulenta or Oxalis herrerae. But in my job of wiki clean-up I was trying to figure out what to do with Liz Waterman's pictures that she did not put on a page since she was unsure of the identity (O. herrerae, O. peduncularis or O. gigantea. So I read through the thread and looked at all the pictures. Andrew Broome who is a member of our list from New Zealand who is very interested in Oxalis and runs an Oxalis list on Yahoo and has an excellent web site as well posted on that list some different information than was supplied on this list so now I am very confused. He thought Liz's pictures looked like what he grew as Oxalis herrerae. He stated that the Oxalis from the Australian Bulb Gallery pictured as Oxalis herrerae was the plant he was growing as Oxalis megalorrhiza which is something that a number of us have known as Oxalis carnosa, a species that reseeds prolifically, can be in bloom off and on all year. Mine is best in spring and fall and can go dormant in summer if I don't water it, but springs back to life with good care. A lot of people grow it from seed every year thinking new ones are more attractive, but if you give the old ones new soil and a deep pot I've found they can look lush as well. On that same list a Japanese member offered this: "I uploaded some photos of Oxalis peduncularis, O. herrerae (O. succulenta misapplied), O. gigantea to my web site. O. megalorrhiza also can be seen there. Please look at http://ne.jp/asahi/morio-m/… " I don't have Salter, but do have the Oxalis checklist so I looked up these four plants to see if I could learn anything from it. Oxalis carnosa Molina This one is supposedly from Chile, is described as single stem to about 15 cm., fleshy 3 foliage leaves, flowers yellow. There is a note from Clifton that his plants under this name are self fertile and seed everywhere, but he doesn't know if it is Molina's plant. Someone else suggested that this plant was a synonym for another plant. Whether this is the correct name or not this is the name given to me for the plants I got from Andrew Wilson that look like the ABA Oxalis herrerae and which others have said is Oxalis megalorrhiza and looks like the picture of that plant on the Japanese link. Oxalis herrerae Knuth From Peru, no descriptive data Oxalis megalorrhiza Jacq. From Peru, but no descriptive data Oxalis succulenta Barn. From Chile Description: Glabrous, root thick, stem short, simple, thick, scaly, scales pubescent; petioles fleshy, terete, erect, glabrous. Leaves = 3 leaflets, broad obcordate, fleshy, apex slightly emarginate, pubescent below, above glabrous, leaflets sessile. Peduncle = erect, succulent, terete, glabrous, apex dichotomous, multiflowered, flowers small, yellow, on thin pedicels, petals twice the size of sepals. Seeds = striate, capsule pubescent, many seeded. There is no descriptive data for Oxalis peduncularis in Clifton (from Ecuador), but O. gigantea from Chile is described as shrubby, 1-1.7m; root woody, perennial; stem lignose, thick erect, branching, flshy, puberulous, branches short, abortive,many, scale with petiole bases; leaves 3-foliate, smal,entire, ovate, obtuse, fleshy, pilose below, abouve cellulose,glabrous; peduncle short, 4-10 mm long, 1-fld., 2 bracts; fls yellow, petals just longer than sepals David Victor thinks the flowers of Liz's plants look like what he grows as Oxalis succulenta, but I expect most of us including David would need more than flowers for a confirmation since so many Oxalis flowers look alike. I am very confused now. Do any of these descriptions help you Liz to identify your plants? Can anyone offer some clear way to sort these plants out? I believe they can be very difficult to photograph and therefore those of us who are looking at the pictures have a difficult time to sort our the differences from the pictures. If I can get consensus about Liz's plants I'll rename them. Otherwise I may just remove the files. Thanks for any help. Mary Sue