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Thanks for your detailed reply Rick

Here are photos of the buds.
The first 2 pics are supposed to be L distichum but have triangular buds.

Hymenocallis guerreroensis
Grown from BX 381. 
3 seeds started in July 2015,
 first blooms in 2021

Blooming now

Lilium distichum and Lilium tsingtauense are both orange asiatic lilies in bloom now in southern Kentucky.

I used to be able to distinguish these with L tsingtauense as up facing (sky) and leaf whorels and L distictum having more of a raceme with outfacing flowers and a taller stem with scattered leaves above a lower leaf whorl.

These lilies were planted together with the species somewhat separated. They have not been in the same ground long enough to hybridise but the rules above to distinguish them seem to be blurred.

My L tsingtauense are from Eddie McRae offered through the now defunct Species Lily Preservation Group and have a bilateral flower symmetry with the lower sepal pointing down. The illustrations in books (Fox, Growing Lilies) have the flower tepals evenly spaced in radial symmetry.

The L distichtum came from A friend now at Longwood and are believed to be the correct species.

Both flower symmetry forms are present on my plants now but the flower symmetry does not line up with the leaf patterns. Can the radial or bilateral flower symmetry be used to distinguish between L tsingauense and L distichum.

Or do i have something else growing here? 

Can some of you lily specialists help me out.

Tulbaghia acutiloba, Devon, Gauteng Province. Grown from SX1-466 seed, started 27 April 2016

These Eucrosia mirabilis seedlings were grown from ebay sourced seed started in 2014. This is the first time blooming. One stem bloomed several months ago at 3 feet tall when it was still "cold" outside, now three are blooming at 24" to 30" tall. 

In the past my Eucrosia mirabilis have always been green to slightly yellow with greenish white to cream colored anthers but in this batch one has yellow tepals like Eucrosia aurantiaca.  My E auratiaca are still sleeping in large pots on my hot driveway and are much larger plants. So i do not think the yellow one is E aurantiaca. 

Can E mirabilis be yellow or are these a hybrid? 

I have a pot of seedings from last year so i know it has bloomed before 9 yrs 

Cyanella hyacinthoides grown from BX 352 seed started in November 2013.

Diane, 
You probably need to find leaves early in their season, so too late for tulips. I suspect tulips could make bulblets on a damaged flower scape early in season when the bud is emerging. 
Lilies yes, if you chop off the top of the plant before the flower bud form to make bulbils on the wound.

I damaged a scape on the thog from Ceres before the second (flowering) one emerged and the 99% severed stem made bulblets in lieu of the flower.  Which is cool because i never get seed or offsets on this plant. 

In Last years discussion someone stated that leaf cutting do not work on Ledebouria. You should test this! 
Now is the time to take resnova leaf cuttings. 

Resnova from leaf cuttings. Clay pot of 2018 cuttings (4years) a d plastic pot of 2019 cuttings of a dark leafed form (3 years)

No Arnold, i said it was not English Blue Bells or H non-scripta. But more likely the weedy Spanish Blue bells 

Here is H non-scripta 'WaveTree' blooming last week. It is smaller.  

Ledebouria agavoides A few days later

This one needs the free drainage, most are in a sandy pumice mix, with little to no organics (sifted peat)

It is well past time to bring the Ledebourias out from under lights into the sun.  

Here is Ledebouria agavoides from Lebona in NE South Africa in a 9" tall clay pot of pure pumice 

Pelargonium rapaceum from SRGC BX in 2019
In a pot of mostly pumice and some local red clay