Hi Angelo and all Concerning self sterility in Brunsvigia's - it has become apparent to me that sterilty/fertility is foremost a direct factor of the Brunsvigia bulbs reserves and growth vigor. The first two flowerings of B. josephinea in my garden produced 27 and 31 flowers in subsequent years. However selfings in both these years failed, with only 3 seeds in the second year which failed to survive as seedlings. However with the continued growth and vigor of the B. josephinea bulb into its third year of flowering reached a peak of 43 flowers. Attempted hybrids were made between B josephinea and Amaryllis, Amarygia and Crinum species together with selfings of B. josephinea. With this higher flower count the Brunsvigia josephinea proved to be self fertile producing from 2 to 8 seeds from each seed capsule. The intergeneric cross with Amarygia produced from 4 to 7 seeds per capsule and 0 to 2 seeds for crosses with Crinums. This latter seed initally grew as Brunsvigia seedlings. The following year there were only 22 flowers on the B. josephinea and it again proved to be almost sterile seed parent to selfings and intergeneric crosses. Seed fertility was restored in the following year when there were 38 flowers produced in late summer. The other observations related to flower count is that the number of bulb leaves produced in early autumn is proportional to the flower count in the following summer. It was also noted that when intergeneric crosses with Crinums or Amargias failed, they still produced one or two seeds that looked identical to Brunsvigia seeds. Occasionally a different coloured seed was produced but these failed to germinate. My conclusion was that the Brunsvigia capsules producing one or two seeds were produced by Apomixis, I tested this out in a subsequent year by using the pollen of a real outlier Doryanthes exsela a massive Agavaceae from Australia known as the Gymea lily. I managed to get one to two seeds from each Brunsvigia flower polinated by Doryanthes - but the seeds were all Brunsvigia josephinea. I have tried similar crosses with B. marginata and it behaves like B. josephinea. Cheers Jim Lykos Blue Mountains Australia