Jim wrote: Ipheion uniflorum as the name suggests should have a single flower per fan of foliage. I think so. Does anyone have an alternate experience? Does it ever have 2 or more per ? Two 'lonely' species I can think of off-hand are Disa uniflora and Baeometra uniflora - both are most likely to have more than one flower! Rhoda Napier, SA, with Cyrtanthus carneus, Thereianthus bracteolus, Aristea oligocephala and Tritoniopsis unguicularis flowering in the wild, and Watsonia schlechteri about to flower.