One thing I've learned from my years in this group is that it is sometimes a challenge to give advice as what you suggest may not work and often more than one solution works. Some Cyrtanthus hybrids I had never flowered until Alberto advised me to put them in a deeper pot. After I did that every year they flowered. I think it is a challenge also to identify bulbs from the leaves as the leaves can look quite different under different growing conditions. I have flowered Cyrtanthus obliquus (in a large pot, but with more than one plant) after many years of waiting and the leaves of my plants look a lot like the leaves of the ones in the Mystery photo. I grow it in my greenhouse year round and it gets some water year round as well as it never goes completely dormant but more water in summer. I saw it flowering in South Africa on a very hot day in open areas without any shade anywhere (I remember since I needed to have cold water poured over my head to cool off). I can't replicate that in my garden so that's why it needs to be in the greenhouse in the summer for warmer temperatures then although I guess I'm also sheltering it a bit from our sometimes wet winters. I lost some of the bulbs to the Narcissus bulb fly early on, but smaller ones survived and eventually got big enough to flower. It hasn't flowered every year and probably won't this year since I pulled out one of the bulbs to share with a friend. It's an amazing flower so very exciting when it does flower. Hopefully the Mystery bulb will flower and then this group can help identify it. Mary Sue _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…