Dear All, As my Oxalis obtusas fade and many of the other winter growing ones are dying back Oxalis brasiliensis is just starting to bloom. And I am finding it in quite a lot of my pots. Last year I sterilized any of the soil I reused. I tried to find all the Oxalis bulbs before I cooked my soil but some were so small I missed them. I theorized they wouldn't survive being cooked. Wrong... Since Paul Tyerman just had a bulb blooming in Australia that he thought was this species I wanted to show him and everyone else what the real thing looks like. The leaves I find attractive and it is a low mat but I wonder if it could get weedy judging from all the ones that are turning up. Mine is just starting to bloom, but last year was covered with flowers for a couple of months (April, May) so the one in the picture will have more flowers later. I hope some of you who got the ones I sent to the BX last fall are having success with them. I uploaded some pictures to the Wiki and added the urls with a description to the Oxalis page: http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… And just to follow Kelly Irwin's lead and since I don't have a child for scale, I asked my dog to pose next to the pot so you can get a sense of the size. I didn't put this picture on the Oxalis page. It will expire in a few weeks. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/… Mary Sue
