Hi Ken and list, As far as I am aware the only interspecific cross within Scadoxus is of S. multiflorus ssp. karharinae x S. puniceus. I did however attempt S. multiflorus ssp. karharinae x S. pole-evansii when my plants were in flower. A few berries did form, so time will tell whether it was successful. All of the other crosses I've attempted have failed, S. puniceus x S. cyrtanthiflorus; S. multiflorus ssp. karharinae x S. membranaceus etc. Scadoxus are a pretty conservative bunch, unlike many other genera who freely produce interspecific and even intergeneric hybrids! I'd love to hear from anyone else who has been hybridizing Scadoxus. Kind regards, Pieter ------------------------------ Message: 14 Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:11:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Ken <kjblack@pacbell.net> Subject: Re: [pbs] Scadoxus pole-evansii To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Message-ID: <231362.48390.qm@web80405.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 WOW Mary Sue and Pieter! ? Those are beautiful!??Thanks for sharing.? Does anybody grow these in the US?? Any experiences perhaps with crosses on other Scadouxus? ? Ken San Diego zone 10-11? ? --- On Sun, 4/19/09, Mary Sue Ittner <msittner@mcn.org> wrote: You can see the photos at: http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… i ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php End of pbs Digest, Vol 75, Issue 22 ***********************************