Thank you MarySue. The more I look at the Brunsvigia Wiki page, the more I cannot see it being a Brunsvigia at all. The leaves are too upright. It is now dark and horridly wet outside so cannot check the red stripe, but I don't think the leaves have a red stripe. I have planted it with some Amaryllis bulbs, and it is starting growth at the same time. And the leaves look very much the same. I wouldn't be surprised if it was an Amaryllis. It flowered at the same time as my Amaryllis. Ina On 26/05/2011 5:22 p.m., Mary Sue Ittner wrote: > Hi Ina, > > I've been working on the wiki Brunsvigia page as I'm going to split > it up since it is getting really long so have been looking at some of > the IBSA journals to add some more information when I do so. In one > of them Dee Snijman has an article on Brunsvigia where she describes > most of the species. Most of them have leaves that are flat on the > ground. A couple that don't have red flowers. > > Brunsvigia herrei is from Namaqualand and Southern Namibia so isn't > in the Color Encyclopedia. We don't have a picture of the flowers of > it on the wiki. > > It is described by Dee as 45 cm. high with six suberect to spreading, > strap-shaped leaves with narrow red margins. It has up to 40 > delicate pink flowers on straight pedicels with stamens of two > lengths, the outer less than half as long as the inner. It flowers > where it grows in March. I wonder if this is what you have. Perhaps > someone else is growing this and can confirm. When did yours bloom? > > Mary Sue > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >