Ismene seedling -- is this the ture narcissiflora?
J.E. Shields (Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:40:41 PDT)

The large, flared staminal cup combined with the long, narrow, curving
tepals seen in David's picture at:

http://picasaweb.google.com/idavidehrlich/…

It would of course help to have pictures of Ismene longipetala and Ismene
narcissiflora for comparison. These can be seen at:

http://bulbsociety.org/GALLERY_OF_THE_WORLDS_BULBS…

Jim Shields

At 02:26 PM 8/15/2010 -0500, you wrote:

Re the answers to Dave Ehrlich's question-- How can one tell? How does
one make the distinction necessary? from a photograph. Length of tepals"
curvature quality?

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