This past summer, I devoted considerable effort to searching for the dead mouse in the greenhouse, only to discover that the smell emanated from a group of Eucomis montana in bloom. Handsome, but nasty! Ellen Hornig Original Message: ----------------- From: John Grimshaw johngrimshaw@tiscali.co.uk Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 20:33:25 -0000 To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org Subject: Re: [pbs] Propagating Eucomis vandermerwei I may have been a bit hasty recommending seed propagation for Eucomis vandermerwei, but I started with seed and got a batch of about 80 flowering plants in the third year. These all set seed very well, so I had no idea that seed was otherwise not so freely produced. Perhaps it needs cross-fertilization. I noticed that my plants were abundantly visited by flies - the flowers are malodorous - and they may have effected pollination. Apart from the malodorous flowers it is a most charming plant. John Grimshaw > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .