Paul wrote: > I was surprised when one or two of the resulting seedlings turned out purple (i.e. var. violacea). Thanks for sharing your experience, Paul. Very interesting! In addition to your very sensible explanation, in the photos that were shared from the rediscovery of the species in the wild, it looks like the original species is quite variable. I raises a question as to whether the varieties we have in growth today might actually be selections. Unfortunately, I can't find any good-quality versions of those photos online. All I found was a very low-res version, which you can see here: http://scielo.cl/scielo.php/… 04 Machine translation from the article text: The morphology of the species found corresponds to T. cyanocrocus Leyb.; however there are differences in the color of the tépalos. The tube is blue, the tépalos in mostly white with blue veins and intense apex, which coincides with the var. Leichtlinii existing in culture. This Infraspecific taxa not listed in the Catalogue of the Vascular Flora of Chile ( Marticorena and Quezada 1985) , since it was never published. In the smaller population 3 guys with completely white flowers found. Mike San Jose, CA