Lycoris season 1
P. C. Andrews (Mon, 02 Aug 2010 12:11:50 PDT)
First L. squamigera buds are finally popping out of the gravel in SE Michigan. I have two leaf forms- one is relatively wide leafed and the second (added to the bed last year to fill it out a bit) has narrower leaves. The latter has not bloomed yet but the bulbs looked like squamigera and were advertised as squamigera. Since I mixed the bulbs, I may not be able to tell which blooms go with which bulb but will tag them next year.
-Phil Andrews
I also suspect that somatic mutations have crept into the clone(s) of
squamigera over the years. The more prolifically a clone propagates, the
more likely somatic changes are to occur.
Jim Shields