hi leo, --- "Leo A. Martin" <leo@possi.org> wrote: > I think sweet potatoes (originally African, I think) > need a long season to > bloom. I haven't grown the ornamental ones so I > don't know about them > blooming. i think you are right, the ornamental sweet potatoes grown for foliage never seem to bloom, at least not in all the baskets and planters you see in the streets, since our season seems to be too short for them. > The unusual tuberous ones bloom reliably for my > friends in the Henry Shaw > Cactus Society in St Louis, Missouri. There are a > lot of African species > like I. holubii and I. bolusii that bloom with the > first growth in the > spring. Others need to have a fair amount of top > growth before blooming. i believe holubii and bolusii are synonimous. sometimes lsited as being in the genus Turbina. i have one but unfort. it hasn't bloomed. for those that don't know, this species produces very nice above ground spherical caudices. http://images.google.com/images/… http://images.google.com/images/… other highly sought species by the succulent growers include cairica, lapathifolia and stuhlmanni. ========= tsuh yang __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com/