John Grimshaw wrote, 2) The 'other byzantinum' Jim describes, with longer but narrower segments, >is also commonly grown here, without a satisfactory name, though it is >sometimes erroneously labelled C. laetum. I see that the RHS Plant Finder >refers "C. laetum misapplied" to C. parnassicum but on what grounds I don't >know. It is an excellent free-flowering plant, which I've also grown for 30 >years - came as a novelty bulb to flower dry on the windowsill. Is there, then, an actual C. laetum? I have a plant under this name, acquired from a Dutch wholesaler, but it is quite different from what I have under the name C. parnassicum. I suppose my plant is the same as John's "excellent free-flowering plant," as it makes quite a show, despite its narrow segments. It is a good performer in the open garden here in western Oregon and will be an important element in the Colchicum bed I plan for my next garden, where I hope to combine the big colchicums with Ceratostigma plumbaginoides if I can just figure out the trick to propagating the latter. (It ought to be a no-brainer, but nothing I try results in a quantity of viable plants.) Jane McGary Northwestern Oregon, USA