I have no idea what current usage for Colchicum in the UK is, but Bowles wrote that "It is known in some parts of England as Naked Boys..." Nor is it only the names which cause confusion: only this week I received a catalog from a well-known mail-order retailer of Dutch-grown plants; in this catalog there is a big, fat photo labeled Lycoris squamigera - yet the plants shown are the more photogenic Amaryllis belladonna. So Terry, you've got lots of company. But I hope it's not like the old saying: heaven for climate, the other place for company! Jim McKenney Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, USDA zone 7, where my Lycoris squamigera have finished for the year, but in other local gardens they continue.