I've grown plants to flower from NARGS seed labeled Scilla scilloides that I understood had become Scilla japonica and then Barnardia japonica. It had an unusual growth habit. I succumbed to NARGS seed of Barnardia numidica a couple of years ago and since it also had a similar growth habit and looks similar I wondered what B. numidica is supposed to look like. The only images I could find in brief searching looked similar and I couldn't find much at all about Barnardia numidica except for a paper that said : "Barnardia numidica is distributed in northern Africa and the Balearic Islands. However, it is now believed that B. numidica is not related to Barnardia (data not shown) and should be transferred to a genus of its own." Something from North Africa one would think would not look like something from China and Japan. I vaguely remembered Jane McGary once wrote about the growth habit of her Scilla scilloides and so this morning I searched our list and found this quote from Jane from 2003 when I asked her what the growth habit was supposed to be of Scilla scilloides. > I don't know what it is SUPPOSED to do, but what it does here is grow > anywhere I put it, whether it gets water in summer or not, and flowers > usually in late August to September. The leaves seem to grow twice -- > once in the fall and once in the spring. I have had it for many years > (like many other American gardeners, I bought it under the mistaken > name "S. numidica," which is a real name of a very rare plant). I wish I had remembered the part about it being misnamed in seed exchanges. So I probably have what I had before. There are photos on the Internet but are they correctly named? Does anyone have any information about the real Barardia numidica? I found this: http://plantillustrations.org/illustration.php/… but it doesn't really help me. It would be nice to know how the two differ. Mary Sue _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…