Richard L. Doutt Bioquest
Mary Sue Ittner (Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:39:12 PST)

Seed was offered for something with the name Lapeirousia enigmata
in BX 15 by Charles Hardman who is not an online member and in BX
315 by Lee Poulsen. Perhaps Lee can tell us what it looked like.

Richard Doutt sold South African bulbs for a number of years through
Bioquest International. I remember enjoying reading his catalogs and
ordered from him, but I don't think I kept any of them. I think he
grew bulbs from seed (in his book Cape Bulbs he lists days from seed
for a number of plants.) Jim Duggan bought his stock when he closed
down but I understood some of it was virused and Jim had to start
over growing many of the species from seed. Jim might have knowledge
about what is grown under this name. It's not listed in Dout's book
Cape Bulbs.

I believe a lot of seed exchange Lapeirousia seed is misnamed. A lot
of it is probably Freesia laxa since it is easy to grow and sets seed readily.

Jim you could grow it and take a picture of it and see if anyone
could identify what it is. I don't see it listed as a synonym for
anything in the SANBI checklist.
http://posa.sanbi.org/searchspp.php

Mary Sue