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Some more Red Heart Aurelian seedlings blooming now. 

This is the best issue i have seen. It would be wonderful to have an entire issue dedicated to each of the American bulb genre. 

A kind member from Australia alerted me to this new research on Purple Drops, the purple form of Bessera.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353558348_Morphological_variation_in_Bessera_Asparagaceae_Brodiaeoideae_allows_for_the_recognition_of_two_new_species

Bessera elegantissima-
Large white eyes, whitish staminal tube, glabrous (smooth) flower scapes, sometimes pruinose (with powdery frosting)

Bessera ramirezii-
Small white eyes, purple staminal tube, scabrous (rough) flower scapes.

These are blooming here and it appears what i have grown from Telos and Hannon stock include both forms and a mixture of both forms, with smooth stems and whitish staminal tube

The first 2 pics seem to be Bessera elegantissima

A d the 3rd pic seems to be Bessera ramirezii. With the small eyes, purple staminal tube and scabrous stem

The last pic seems to be a mixture with a small eyes, white tube and a smooth stem.

A weak Sol Verde bloom after the stem has spent a week plus in a pail of water in intense heat

Probably not seedlings from Sol Verde.
Borers got my best stem of SV this year

This orange lily has a face a bit like SV

More today

Some more aurelians

It is a dry hot year and most plants are very stressed and stunted in the draught. But a few new blooms are open
All are aurelians

Notholirion thomsonianum
Bulbs look like these with ribs

Isnt Cyrtanthus mackenii supposed to bloom in mid winter like early January in the north?

Sinningia iarae from SX6 seed. This blooms off and on every year with a dormant period between growths. Not sure how long from seed to bloom but probably 1-2 yrs

One of the L distichtum bulbs has some loose scales at the surface under the oak leaves. It is definitely 'articulate'.  But yellow not white like Ricks photo. 

This came in BX 394 (April 2016) as Cyrtanthus sp. Evergreen. Reported to have never bloomed for the donor, only multiplying by offsets. It was reported to have been given to the donor by A well respected bulb guy.

It finally bloomed today as a large Habranthus. Perhaps a seed got mixed in the sand plunge

I have been calling this large pink with a green throat as  Habranthus × floryi  'green base'

It will be replanted with the other rain lilies

This is the only pic from year with buds on what is supposed to be L tsingtauense. It too is angular.

This pic show buds on what is also supposed to be L distichum are more rounded. But the small Leavis above the whorl are not present here. 

I seem to recall the SLPG plants were shorted with only one leaf whorl when i was growing them in frigid Michigan.  In Kentucky everything seems to grow faster and larger. And multiplies faster.