Dear All, Let's dwell on what "puce" means as a color. There some bulbs described with puce-colored blooms, altho I can't really recollect which ones just now. "Puce" is supposedly from the Old French word for fleas, originally from the Latin. At dictionary.reference.com there are three separate entries for puce, with three different color foci: A deep red to dark grayish purple Of a dark brown or brownish purple color a color varying from dark purplish brown to dark red When I look at fleas, I just see very dark brown or black, not a color readily found in nature in flowers! And on paint swatches, I'm sure I've seen puce in the past as a sort of dirty mauve grey, not dark at all. Cynthia Mueller