I will check with Terry Hatch next time I see him. Or quicker, I will email Jack Hobbs. Ina Ina Crossley Auckland New Zealand zone 10a On 19/01/2014 1:51 p.m., Alani Davis wrote: > Steve and Ina > I am not familiar with that book and interested to learn of it. I won't > say I have any taxonomic level mastery in Mexican and Central American > Zephyranthes spp. though I have grown quite a few of them and long been a > fan of them. I have not heard of a yellow form of Zephyranthes macrosiphon > before that I can remember. I have been growing the a "typical" rose pink > form for 15 years that was supposed to have come from the late Thad Howard > and I have long trusted it was in fact that spp. It grows well for me and > sets plenty of seed which seem to be able to "migrate" in the garden quite > well, so I have gotten fairly good at separating straying rainlilies that > come up in the lawn or away from their parent patches. A couple of > characters jump out at me as quite different of these yellow flower Zeph's > from what I know as Z. macrosiphon. The leaves are too narrow and not > nearly as dark a medium green as Z. macrosiphon. I am guessing a bit on the > size relative to other objects in the pictures but the flowers seem to be > smaller than what I consider Z. macrosiphon with narrower tepals. I agree > with you Steve these look like Zephyranthes primulina but much darker or > Zephyranthes dicromantha (which looks a lot like a darker Z. primulina to > me!). In looking at the the Pine Mountain Nursery site, I would mention > that is definitely not the real Zephyranthes rosea they have photoed under > that name either. The real Z. rosea looks quite different. > > Alani > > > On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 3:46 AM, Ina Crossley <klazina1@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have the book Steven, they are right in that is what it says in the >> book. What it says in the book is >> "Z. macrosiphon is a Mexican species with large flowers carried in >> summer on stems about 15cms long. The flowers are usually rose with a >> greenish tube. A beautiful lemon-yellow form with golden anthers also >> occurs." >> >> Can someone confirm that statement please? >> >> Ina >> >> Ina Crossley >> Auckland New Zealand zone 10a >> >> On 18/01/2014 9:14 p.m., steven hart wrote: >>> Hello Zephyranthes experts, i bought some zephyranthes from Pine Mountain >>> Nursery & they have a dark yellow with a slight rose blush back of petal, >>> looks like Z. Dicromantha, its darker then primulina, but it is marked as >>> Z. macrosiphon... When i said macrosiphon is pink, they told me that it >> is >>> a new macrosiphon that is yellow & said it is noted in pages 183 to 184 >> of >>> “Bulbs for Gardeners and Collectors” by Hobbs and Hatch.. >>> >>> It sounds incorrect to me, can any one confirm if it is possible that >> there >>> is a yellow one now ? >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/ >