I am doing a citizen science research project on this plant in Borrego Springs, CA. I notice that there has been a lot of discussion about the plant in past years (2005-2010) but not much recently. This past spring was excellent for the plant in the wild, and approx. 165 of them came up in my yard, as well as elsewhere within the range of the species. Of the plants in my yard, roughly half bloomed, and roughly half of those produced seed. I counted the number of leaves per plant, correlated this with flowering and fruiting, and excavated 12 bulbs from my yard to be weighed and measured. If you are interested in the details I can send you a draft of the paper I have written. This coming winter I will be doing my own germination studies and experimenting with "forcing" some bulbs by means of irrigation to see if that works. What I am looking for is any information about recent efforts to grow the plant, such as success or failure with germination, translocation of bulbs, or anything else that seems interesting. If you respond to pbs@lists.ibiblio.org, please also send a copy to my personal email address, don@rideout.net so that I will be sure to receive it. I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks. Don Rideout Borrego Springs, CA _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…