hi everybody, sorry for the long delay in replying. and sorry for causing this confusion. years ago, one of the gardeners at the local BG gave me some bulbs of a plant they were growing as Eurycles cunninghaimi. they later changed their tag to Proiphys amboinensis... so i wonder if they were synonyms or misidentified. the plant grows a very nice round leaf (people thought i was growing a Hosta indoors) but mine never bloomed and i eventually send them away. from your description, i'd say that what they grew was Proiphys amboinensis. i assume it's from indonesia? thanks for the clarification. tsuh yang > Eurycles is a synonym of Proiphys, but P. > cunninghamii and P. amboinensis > are definitely different to each other. The P. > cunninghamii to my way of > thinking is a neater, more organised flowerhead with > smaller flowers and > looking much more like a "Jonquil" in a lot of ways. > The P. amboinensis > has much larger flowers and is more spectacular but > I found that the flower > head looks much looser (in the ones I have seen > anyway) and despite the > larger flowers it is not as nice to me. There was > some minor differences > in the leaves as well. These observations were made > recently at the > Australian National Botanic Gardens here in > Canberra, Australia where they > grow them in a heated glasshouse. > > > Cheers. > > Paul Tyerman > Canberra, Australia. USDA equivalent - Zone 8/9 __________________________________ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/