Thanks to Mark for posting a photo of Allium hookeri var. muliense, and saving me the trouble of photographing it so I could ask him what it is. I recently bought this plant from Collectors Nursery in Battle Ground, Washington. I believe they have a good supply of them. They have a website through which plants can be ordered. Their plants are grown from seed that proprietor Diana Reeck collected in China. Jane McGary Northwestern ORegon, USA At 09:45 PM 7/20/2004 -0400, you wrote: >Hi folks, > >I posted 3 photos of Allium hookeri var. muliense, an unusual species from >China, inhabiting forest margins and moist meadows in Sichuan and Yunnan >provinces, at 2800 - 4200 m elevation. The species in unique in having up >to 8-9 >leaves in fine condition at flowering, the plant looking more like a >hemerocallis >than an allium, until the ball of bright yellow flowers appear in June and >early July. The flower stem is approximately 2'-4" tall (70 cm). This >species >grows from thick fleshy roots attached to narrow cylindric bulbs. > >http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…