I looked up this species last night in Goldblatt & Manning's amazing 'Cape Plants' which gives a brief description of all known plants from the Cape floral region of South Africa. The author of the Oxalis account, B. Bayer, says of O. natans: Aquatic geophyte with slender flexuouse, branching stems. Leaves tufted and terminal, trifoliate. Flowers shallowly campanulate, white with yellow tube. Sept.-Nov. seasonal pools, 50-200 m, Piketberg to Cape Peninsula and Worcester. I would love to see it! The description puts me in mind of Crassula natans, which I saw in the Nieuwoudtville area in Sept 2004, a pretty thing with floating rosettes and a tuft of white flowers, all held on long flexuous stems rising from the pool bed. Presumably both Oxalis and Crassula have a storage organ in the pool bed and I should think they can adjust their habit of growth dependent on the depth of water. John Grimshaw Dr John M. Grimshaw Garden Manager, Colesbourne Gardens Sycamore Cottage Colesbourne Nr Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 9NP SNOWDROP OPEN DAYS AT COLESBOURNE PARK 2006 Every weekend in February, Saturday and Sunday only, from 1 pm 4/5, 11/12,18/19, 25/26 Groups tours by arrangement Website: http://www.colesbournegardens.org.uk/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Johannes-Ulrich Urban" <320083817243-0001@t-online.de> To: <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 11:30 PM Subject: [pbs] Oxalis natans > Dear All, > > I tried a search on Metacrawler and got a lot of references but had no time to > look at them tonight. A photo search was not sucessful, unfortunately. Is this > plant possibly extinct? > > > bye for today, Uli > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >