Having bought a nice pot in bud with 5 scapes of a gracilis type hippeastrum ( E 5) I tried to find out its name. As said they are gracile flowers, a light orange-red with a basal yellow blotch on each tepal. When I looked it up in Google I came across pictures with and without a yellow blotch. Which one is the correct one? By the way gracile or not it was tetraploid like the big ones. Ben J.M.Zonneveld Institute of Biology,Leiden University, Clusius lab Wassenaarse weg 64, 2333 AL Leiden, The Netherlands Zonneveld@rulbim.Leidenuniv.NL Fax: +31-71-5274999. min temp -10C (15F)