In response to Tim Chapman's query, I inadvertently grew a bunch of E.vandermerwei hybrids from seed supposed to be E. vandermerwei (and I don't even know, at this point, if the seed was from my plants or bought in from another source). One in particular was extremely handsome, with dark leaves with ruffled edges and a deep pink inflorescence. I hope it has survived my move - it's still in vermiculite in a bag in the basement, and I haven't checked it lately. Based on the appearance of this plant and its lesser siblings, I would have guessed that the other parent was one of the purple-leaved E. pallidiflora hybrids (or whatever they are), but I do not know. Seed collected from the best plant was very fertile, and somewhere I have a bag of the first-year seedlings, awaiting spring planting. Pollination wasn't controlled, and I have a large collection of eucomis, so it's anyone's guess who the pollen parent(s) of these seedlings is/are. Ellen -- Ellen Hornig 212 Grafton St Shrewsbury MA 01545 508-925-5147