My Iris fulva has done that, Mark: http://signa.org/index.pl?Display+Iris-fulva+20 It seems to be weather related. Dennis in Cincinnati (where my waitress accidentally April Fooled me by refilling my Dr. Pepper with Diet Pepsi.... yuck) On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Mark BROWN <brown.mark@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > Trimerous flowers such as irids and amaryllids, galanthus included, > occasionally produce dimerous flowers. > I know of several clones of galanthus selected for this trait. Odd rather > than beautiful! > There are tetramerous forms too which often spark the beginings of that > curious disease galanthophilia. > These things are rarely stable thank goodness. > Mark > > > > > > > Message du 01/04/14 16:55 > > De : "M. Gastil-Buhl" > > A : pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > > Copie à : > > Objet : [pbs] Lessaea villosa (note the date) > > > > Hi PBS friends, > > > > Mid-March I found this curious bloom in the Moraea villosa A hybrid > > sand plunge basket, with only 2 petals and 2 sepals. > > https://flickr.com/photos/gastils_garden/… > > > > Please note that these photos are real, unaltered, despite today's > > date. The flower was real. The species binomial, however, has > > everything to do with today's date. > > > > - Gastil > > _______________________________________________ > > pbs mailing list > > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >