Thank you Lee for sharing your experiences with this species. I thought I would add links to some pictures: - habitat picture (in the rain apparently) http://wiki.sumaqperu.com/es/… - an interesting set of photos: http://sacha.org/envir/deserts/… Jacob Knecht ---------- - http://www.flickr.com/photos/morabeza79/ On 4 July 2010 20:45, Lee Poulsen <wpoulsen@pacbell.net> wrote: > I got some seeds of Ismene amancaes from Charles Hardman a few years ago > when his main plant of it finally flowered after something like 20 years. I > now have a couple of bulbs of it that seem to be growing well, but only one > has flowered for me a only once so far. They grow very differently than the > previously mentioned ones, popping up in late spring and going dormant a few > months later. Other than that it isn't very difficult to grow. I keep them > completely dry during the winter. Also their foliage is much less tough than > the hybrids and breaks or tears very easily. I've read that there is a > concerted effort to repopulate them in their native Peru and they are > planting thousands of seeds every year in nurseries and replanting a large > protected native region far outside of Lima somewhere that is now a national > park or plant refuge. None of my email queries into availability of seeds or > bulbs for purchase has been responded to. The yellow of I. amancaes is > intense and beautiful. > > > --Lee Poulsen > Pasadena, California, USA - USDA Zone 10A > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >