>Your observation about the basal plate is quite interesting. Can you >tell if the tissue is living? Are you suggesting bulblets or some >kind of runners may form off of them for asexual propagation? It's a >very curious observation. Dear All; Hard to tell from a very small sample, but an article on the genus shows a branched 'understem' with bulbs only at the end. Mine looked pretty 'dead', but I suppose that this could produce a new 'branch' (i.e. 'bulbs') from a dormant bud in each node. - if there actually are and they should be. If I were really brave, I'd cut this off and plant it separately to encourage these buds to break and produce new bulbs. I just don't know all that much about these oddities. I've never seen this in Lycoris or any other bulb. Best Jim W. -- Dr. James W. Waddick 8871 NW Brostrom Rd. Kansas City Missouri 64152-2711 USA Ph. 816-746-1949 E-fax 419-781-8594 Zone 5 Record low -23F Summer 100F +