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That depends on how hot it is and when did you water (or when did they get rain) for the last time.

I am lifting bulbs whose pots seem fairly dry and there's still some moisture from the last rain two weeks ago. Most have no leaves and roots but some have no leaves but keep living roots, in this case I cover them again.

Hi, seeds of EX08_296 Eucrosia mirabilis are already sending out roots!!

So many thanks to  Alberto Grossi!!

Hi again, it seems that Stenomesson leucanthum is a real Stenomesson. Here the original illustration by Ravenna



The plant DOES NOT SEEM Rimmer's plant.

And a link to Meerow's paper

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266271150_Pucara_Amaryllidaceae_Reduced_to_Synonymy_with_Stenomesson_on_the_Basis_of_Nuclear_and_Plastid_DNA_Spacer_Sequences_and_a_New_Related_Species_of_Stenomesson

I know I guy who lives in the area where it and S. chloranthum occur, he is more interested on Hippeastrum but has seen the plants, I hope he gets some seeds.

Hi, Rimmer, I am surprised by the staminal cup in Stenomesson leucanthum. If I'm not mistaken, the biggest expert in South American Amaryllidaceae, Alan Meerow, was the one to transfer it from Pucara to Stenomesson. But he also changed Clinanthus milagroanthus, also with a cup, to Paramongaia milagroantha, so maybe further studies should be carried out.

In the meantime, I look forward for seeds.

Hi, Randy, I wasn't suggesting that you sent any bulbs... but please do haha

Thanks, Martin, s I said I did not take the photo. I have discovered that Iberian Muscari can be as attractive as Eastern ones.

Moving to Peru, here is Caliphruria  (now Stenomesson, according to Alan Meerow et al.) korsakoffii, again thanks to Rimmer de Vries.

Hi, book and seeds arrived, thanks

Carlos

Really nice that your plants are rewarding you with so beautiful flowers again.

Amazing!!

Nice, Randy!!

I showed you a couple of seedlings and now that they lost their single leaf I looked at the bulbs... They are Colchicum, and I'm not at all sure of which one they can be (luckily there's only three options).

And my C. obispoensis turned out to be a Narcissus, so after 2 years I don't have any Calochortus after all. 

I admit it, they are maybe too difficult from seed for me.

Muscari cazorlanum, a narrow endemic from the Cazorla range in NE Andalusia

Taken by a colleague, please ask me if anyone wants to use them.

Zephyranthes katheriniae, thanks to Rimmer de Vries.

The true colour is difficult to catch...

Well I stiill saw some wild bulbs yesterday. Dipcadi serotinum. There were also Iris lutescens, Asphodelus cerasiferus, Squilla undulata, Lapiedra martinezii and possibly Gladiolus dubius, Allium moschatum and some Ophrys, but I saw no traces of them.Happy worker's day. 

Allium moly, the form described as subsp. Glaucescens, to say farewell to April.

Hi, Tractema lilio-hyacinthus is very different, as Jan said:

https://www.asturnatura.com/photo/_files/photogallery/7d3e72a4480f93c7ecba2b520fdc7aba.jpg

https://d2seqvvyy3b8p2.cloudfront.net/a1a8042ac2319073e1f4107cb42f9fe5.jpg

Yes, Hyacinthoides is the second obvious choice. Can you look at the bracteoles (presence / absence, one or two, length...)

Carlos