At 04:51 13-07-2005, Jim McKenney wrote: >The sprout on all bulbs I know sprouts only once. After that, it is replaced >by another sprout on the same basal plate. That new sprout has its own >surrounding storage scales, sometimes supplemented by scales surviving from >the old bulb. But the sprout is always a new one. And as the old sprout >dies, the axis of annual growth shifts to the axis of the new sprout. And >around that axis are arrayed the elements which make up the new bulb. > >From the outside, it looks like the same old bulb. But on the inside, the >old bulb has disappeared and been replaced by a new one. > >Jim McKenney I know lots of people that grow amaryllis indoors and never hibernate them, so that they retain the same leaves for years. If they are cold for a couple of months they also blossom year after year. In about 10 years, I suppose, all the original leaves would be replaced by new growth, as leaves do grow old in time. Carol