I got the same seeds as Lee, and Alan Meerow confirmed they are hybrids with Hippeastrum. No, Lee, mine have never bloomed either! A few bulbs may still be alive in some of the pots.... On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 8:37 PM, David Pilling <david@pilling.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > On 26/07/16 01:13, Lee Poulsen wrote: > >> By chance did anyone else get some of these seeds and get them to grow >> properly, or even thrive? >> > > I had a look if there had been any previous postings to the PBS list about > this genus [1]. Seeing that there were for T. mira (people growing it from > seed), I thought about what I'd just seen on the wiki "is known only by the > type collection" i.e. it is lost. > > Asking the experts about the seeds being grown, got the response "This is > a myth, we already discovered it is not true and it was a Hybrid of > Hippeastrum " > > Seemingly Tocantinia is difficult to grow, if anyone has had success with > any species it would be of interest. > > > [1] > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbslist/2016-July/… > > > -- > David Pilling > http://www.davidpilling.com/ > _______________________________________________ > 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.