The plant I grow as Muscari muscarimi is quite different from that I have grown (from Archibalds' seeds) as M. racemosum. I can't see how they could be conspecific: for one thing, M. muscarimi makes a few large offsets, and M. racemosum makes more (though not as many as, say, M. azureum) and smaller offsets. The former is brownish-cream to white, and the latter is deep indigo-blue. Jane McGary Portland, Oregon, USA At 03:48 PM 11/17/2011, you wrote: >I was checking the Kew list yesterday to be sure I had some names >right. I was curious to see what the Muscari which in the past has >been called moschatum, muscarimi, ambrosiacum and probably other >names is currently called. There was a big surprise here: evidently >it's now Muscari recemosum. > >Does anyone know if this means that the plant we have long known as >Muscari racemosum has a new name also? Or are "old" Muscari >racemosum and the musk hyacinth now being treated as conspecific? > >Jim McKenney