Amarygia progress
Michael Mace (Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:48:36 PDT)

Ken, I'm having a lot of fun watching your Amarygias develop. Thanks for
sharing the photos.

I was interested by the photo you posted of one of the siblings to that
flower, which looks a lot like a typical Amaryllis hybrid:
http://flickr.com/photos/amarguy/…

Do you remember if this came from one of the tiny seeds that you sometimes
get from Amarygia crosses, or a larger seed? I'm wondering if the seed
size/color corresponds to the type of flower you get.

I got flowers this fall from some hybrids of B. josephinae and a Les
Hannibal Amaryllis. They looked a lot like the typical Hannibal Amaryllis,
so I thought the seedlings must have been apomictic or an accidental cross
from some Amaryllis pollen that blew in. But seeing your sibling photo, I'm
starting to wonder if I did get a real cross that just doesn't express a lot
of josephinae characteristics. In particular, there's one plant that has
flowers with strangely twisted tepals. You can see it here:

http://flickr.com/photos/83542459@N00/…

Or maybe it's just a Hannibal hybrid with twisted tepals. I'd appreciate
comments from more knowledgeable growers than me.

Mike
San Jose, CA