Schizobasis intricata
Roy Herold (Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:19:16 PDT)

Jim,

What a coincidence, there was a nice Schizobasis intricatus in *our*
cactus and succulent show this past weekend, and it got a blue ribbon.
This is an easy bulb to grow, and can be treated similar to boweia. It
may or may not go dormant in hot weather--the one in our show did not,
but mine did. The flowers are exceedingly self fertile, and each will
produce seed without an active pollinator. I would have sent some of
mine into the BX, but they always drop before I can collect any.

There were a number of other nice bulb/corm/tuber entries in our show
that did a good job of balancing out the succulents and cacti.
Haemanthus, boophane, scilla, bulbine, gethyllis, eucomis (my
vandermerwei got a ribbon), sinningia, boweia (not volubilis but rarer
ones like nana), etc. Nice to see these folks are branching out a bit,
so to speak.

--Roy

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