Gottfried, I think this is something very different. The scapes are almost black, wiry and tortuous (vs. green and straight) and the bulbs shallow and clustering. The leaves are all basal (not dissimilar to Drimia haworthioides) compared to O. hispidum from e.g. Citrusdal, which has a habit more like a terrestrial orchid overall. Also, in my experience O. hispidum flowers with leaves whereas this "O. sp." flowers after the leaves are completely dead, about 6 weeks after O. hispidum. I have not made a comparison of the flowers. Dylan On 21 May 2012 10:06, Gottfried Milkuhn <Milkuhn@t-online.de> wrote: > Hi Ken, > > this plant I have also - it is a form of Ornithogalum hispidum (Little > Karoo). I have two provenances... Both are identic. > Perhaps can help this. > > Gottfried > Germany > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > -- "*Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.*" ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton