Nhu, et al., As I recall, petiolatum is supposed to be 2n=77 while striatum are (mostly anyway) 2n=44. Until we all walk around with pocket DNA sequencers, we are forced to rely on gross physical appearances. Let's not call petiolatum a var. of striatum, and lets not call anything grown from seed "petiolatum." That ought to serve until the aforementioned technical marvels are in a pocket of each of us. At least while we wait for definitive enlightenment. Jim S. On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 8:46 PM, Alberto <ezeizabotgard@hotmail.com> wrote: > Nhu, petiolatum never set any seed as it is supposed to be a natural > hybrid. Crazy offsetting is at expense of the mother bulb mass and therfore > of the flowers. Bulbs planted buried will flower regularly each spring and > still produce a small number of offsets very year. > > Striatum is taller, less stocky and does produce seed and few offsets, > good sized. They had never been confused in the past until someone decided > petiolatum is a ssp. of striatum. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > -- James Shields jshields46074@gmail.com P.O. Box 92 Westfield, IN 46074 U.S.A.