I got it from a large Japanese bulb company called Komoriya Nursery Ltd. <bulb@komoriya.co.jp>, <http://www.komoriya.co.jp/index-e.html>. They offer a lot of Hippeastrum that appear to be named cultivars and only a few species. However, many of the named cultivars I've seen don't look anything like what the Dutch of South Africans produce. Some look like they've done their own breeding from original species. The problem is that they don't post many pictures and you need to get your hands on the spring catalogs of the major Japanese mail order nurseries (all in Japanese). There are many many Japanese plant breeders of all sorts and they've been at it for a long time now. But due to the language and writing barriers, they only cater to Japanese and we in the rest of the world never see a lot of their efforts (except it seems in specialty areas such as orchids and Clivia for example). The two Hipp. species do look a lot alike to me too. Alberto says they're different. I wonder how they differ. --Lee Poulsen Pasadena area, California, USDA Zone 9-10 On Mar 19, 2004, at 8:39 PM, TGlavich@aol.com wrote: > Lee, > > On the IBS Gallery of World Bulbs Hippeastrum Species page there is > Hippeastrum teyucuarense, which appears identical to corriensis, even > down to the > trumpet shape. It's a spectacular plant. Can you share the bulb > supplier's name? > Are there other equally good species available? > > Thanks > > Tom