If you have a good soil it will make normally offsets one larger one and a small one maybe the species is self-sterile Roland 2012/11/22 Shmuel Silinsky <gardenbetter@gmail.com>: > I have a bulb of Colchicum hierosolymitanum that was rescued from a > construction area. It just finished flowering. The bulb is the size of a > flattened ping pong ball. I have 2 questions: > > 1) Colchicum hierosolymitanum is not listed on the PBS site, but that's > what it is based on The Hebrew University Jerusalem website > http://flora.huji.ac.il/browse.asp/… Any idea > what else it may be called or does the PBS site need an update? I know > tehre afre lumpers and splitters, but... > > 2) Any way to propagate this bulb besides seed? After many years of > watching this plant bloom in situ, I have never seen it set seed. > > Thanks > . > Shmuel > Jerusalem, Israel usda zone 9b > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ -- R de Boer La Maugardiere 1 F 27260 EPAIGNES FRANCE Phone./Fax 0033-232-576-204 Email: bulborum@gmail.com