Ipheion 'Rolf Fiedler'
Lee Poulsen (Sun, 30 Nov 2003 22:13:47 PST)

No, I hadn't gotten any replies. However, now that I read John
MacGregor's reply, I'm even more confused.

1. 'Rolf Fiedler' has been known since at least 1978 and even then
was already named "Tristagma peregrinans"? Why has there been so much
puzzlement over this species since then?

2. The entire Ipheion genus was subsumed into Tristagma since at
least 1963? Is this true? Why hasn't anyone anywhere, currently,
listed their Ipheion uniflorum species or cultivars as Tristagma
uniflorum? This is the first I've heard this.

3. So if the "yellow" Ipheions are all Nothoscordums and the "blue"
Ipheions are really Tristagmas, then there never were any Ipheions?

4. And what about the Tristagma species that always were Tristagma?
Do they look like Ipheions? I've never seen them (although I've tried
to grow some seeds of them recently--Chilean species). Does T. nivale
look like the various Ipheion species?

5. Should we all re-label our Ipheions? Should we organize an email
and letter campaign to tell every mail order nursery around the world
that offers Ipheions that they are really Tristagmas? ;-)

Just wondering aloud...

--Lee Poulsen
Pasadena area, California, USDA Zone 9-10