I have also never seen fruits on my Sternbergia lutea, although I grow several clones quite close to each other, varying greatly in leaf width and flower size and shape. Unfortunately their provenances are not known, having been rescued from the garden of Primrose Warburg after her death. The 'standard' garden clone in this country at least is a narrow-leaved plant, in which the leaves are rather dark green and stand erect, often above the flowers at flowering time. It is a very reliable, vigorous plant, with good-sized rich yellow flowers, and is certainly a good representative for the garden. I believe it to be a single clone and it is not infrequently given the name 'Angustifolius', with the reputation of being free-flowering. I have very often been offered bulbs of 'a very free-flowering one' to find that it is in fact the same old clone. Since it is so dominant in cultivation one wonders what the comparisons have been made with! I wonder if this is the triploid Ben Zonneveld has mentioned. I have only seen S. lutea in southern Greece, where it is rather variable as Jane McGary has related. I believe that I've read that in southern France the plants are mostly 'Angustifolius' or similar. An autumn trip through Mediterranean Sternbergia sites is indicated... what a hardship that would be! John Grimshaw Dr John M. Grimshaw Sycamore Cottage Colesbourne Nr Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 9NP Tel. 01242 870567