Hi, I don't think that Marek has scales on the Hippeastrum. It looks to me like that is the beginning of the outbreak of spores from a rust fungus. It is too late to do anything this season but a systemic fungicide may help with next season's growth. Nhu On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Mary Sue Ittner <msittner@mcn.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Marek Walnik from Poland who loves amaryllids would like help from > our group determining what is the problem with this Hippeastrum. > The photo below shows the underside of one of the leaves. Any ideas? > > > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/pbswiki/… > / >