Hi Paul, Matt and all, Those are fine looking flowers, Matt! I wish I had bought more plants at that symposium myself. The bulbs I have of Cyrtanthus [montanus X elatus] have almost always been infertile too. I got luck one single time, pollinating one bulb's flowers onto the flowers of another of the bulbs that was in bloom at the same time and the reverse. One of the two plants set two pods, and I got maybe 6 seeds. The last time I checked, the pot of those seedlings had 4 nice bulbs in it, ca. 1 inch in diameter. I'm very curious to see what their eventual flowers will look like, and to see if these F2 plants are more fertile than their parents. In a few more years..... Regards, Jim Shields in central Indiana At 09:52 PM 12/17/2004 +0000, Paul wrote: >Matt and all, > >I suspect that what you have got is a Cyrtanthus elatus x falcatus, or C. >falcatus x elatus hybrid. > >............ There are 8-10 flowers per scape. Unfortunately, despite my best >efforts, they all seem to be infertile. > >Paul > >Dr Paul Chapman, Wallington, Surrey, UK ************************************************* Jim Shields USDA Zone 5 Shields Gardens, Ltd. P.O. Box 92 WWW: http://www.shieldsgardens.com/ Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA Tel. ++1-317-867-3344 or toll-free 1-866-449-3344 in USA