Tim, An interesting story. Yes, I will contact the Komoriya Nursery in Japan. I've been asking the Agri Cooperative organization in Japan to sell the pure white bulbs, but no success so far. I thought the white color was naturally made with recessive gene. I heard white Gloriosa is weak and not vigorous. *Makiko Goto-Widerman* On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 2:51 PM Tim Chapman <tim@gingerwoodnursery.com> wrote: > > There was an article in one of the old IBS journals featuring Komoriya’s > hybridizing work including Gloriosa. He had developed a pure white and > other colors many years ago. I believe he had an exceptional offer for the > rights to the pure white but a worker had accidentally shipped his few > stock plants to another nursery. He had double flowered types as well. > There is a pure orange cultivar that has been available wholesale for > several years, so a lighter version of that does not seem unlikely, and > probably could be easy to obtain just by growing out a decent number of the > Orange Glory seeds (I think that’s the cultivar name). > > Tim Chapman > > > > > > > White seems to be available in Holland; as cut flowers.Crown Jewels > Gloriosa's – Gloriosa lily range > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…