Hi, If you look at the photos on the Sparaxis wiki hybrid page you will see that Sparaxis hybridizes very easily with many different color combinations. <http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…> And it grows very easily in New Zealand. Years ago when I visited Terry Hatch he had a whole field of them and he was letting the bees pollinate them and see what the result might be. I've saved seed from open pollinated plants and grown it on and had the same experience that John has that none of them are the same regardless of the what the plant was like I saved the seed from. Like Terry Hatch I find the color forms that nature produces fascinating. And what is interesting is when I planted just one in a pot to try to isolate the forms and just grow on ones I liked, I found a great difference in how much they offset. Some offset rapidly and some much more slowly. Obviously the ones that are commonly sold as a specific color form are the ones that offset quickly as they are easy to propagate. I doubt that what Ina is growing is a pure species even though it does look a lot like Sparaxis bulbifera so I could be wrong. I was given some that look very much like it that someone bought at a garden center. I'll use the file so I won't have to describe where it is on the hybrid page. It has been long lived and expanded by offsets and has hybrid vigor. <http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/…> They aren't floppy for me either (not like Ixia which falls over if it rains while it is blooming), but they can expand dramatically by corms and by seed so Ina if you don't like it, you probably would be wise to remove it. I have occasionally seen it growing in the wild where I live, but it hasn't seemed to last too long as it later years I haven't seen it. Mary Sue
