Actually, Jim is half correct. I still don't know of any commercial sources for R. asiaticus seed. He is certainly correct about the tubers, though. Eugene Zielinski Augusta, GA USA > [Original Message] > From: Jim McKenney <jimmckenney@starpower.net> > To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>; <eez55@earthlink.net> > Date: 2/25/06 12:19:18 PM > Subject: RE: [pbs] Ranunculus asiaticus > > Speaking of Ranunculus asiaticus, Eugene Zielinski wrote:" I don't know of > any commercial source for seed or tubers of the true species " > > Oh, yes you do! Every good bulb catalog lists the cultivated forms of > Ranunculus asiaticus, and these - unless they are of hybrid origin - are no > more or no less Ranunculus asiaticus than any wild form. >