Dear All, My friend Panayoti Kelaidis travelled to Kazakhstan in late summer. He sent me a couple pix and allowed me to share them with PBS friends. Mary Sue was kind enough to wrangle these on to the wiki. The pix are taken on the border of Kazakhstan and Kyrgestan in a steppe filled with Ungernia sewerzowii gone to seed. The pictures clearly show the 'odd" ,but perfectly normal seed of this genus. Ungernia is the closest relative to Lycoris in the Family Amaryllidaceae and these seed pods look very similar. The seed itself could hardly be more different. Ungernia seed is flat , black and papery like many warm climate Amarayllids, while Lycoris have hard, round, black, pea-size seed. We can only hope that Panayoti brought back lots of seeds and will soon be offering photos of a bank of Ungernia in bloom at Denver Botanic Garden. See http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… Thanks to PK and MSI. Jim W. -- Dr. James W. Waddick 8871 NW Brostrom Rd. Kansas City Missouri 64152-2711 USA Ph. 816-746-1949 Zone 5 Record low -23F Summer 100F +