When I was doing the intake phase of the NARGS Seed Exchange in the mid-1990s, I got a donation from Australia that included Calostemma purpureum. The envelope fell open, and out rolled what looked like a bunch of sprouting garbanzo beans. I potted them up and gave samples away at our local chapter. The ones I kept are in flower as I write. This is not a showy flower but of course interesting to grow an Australian geophyte here. Jane McGary A