Dear Silent Seed, I appreciate your "general rule not to buy anything until it has a proper name." Can you imagine to switch to the "general rule not to buy anything until it has a proper locality where it was collected"? Then the anything has a scientific value and it is worthwhile to get a good identification. As to our Albuca 'Augrabies Hills' the locality is evidently wrong. I got from South Africa the following information: "I've had a look at the SANBI database which is unfortunately does not provide detailed locality data but I can find only 3 specimens of Albuca polyphylla in the specimen database -- Crouch, N. 795 (KZN) Strey, R. 7352 (KZN) Marchand, P. 10323 (Western Cape When using the map facility for Augrabies the search finds only one Albuca (A. setosa), based on a specimen collected by S Bester in 2005, housed in PRE. I think you can safely say the locality of the specimen is an error!" Do you have by chance Albuca navicula which has a proper name? Do you have a locality for it? It is not seldom offered in the U.S. but nobody can give me the locality. Regards Dietrich Am 27.03.2012 15:29, schrieb The Silent Seed: > > So, is it safe to say that all the plants out there sold under this name, are A. polyphylla ? If so, time for me to get one - great news! > I have a general rule not to buy anything until it has a proper name. > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >