There are so many name issues relating to common names which is one of the of the problems with common names. There are so many common names and often there are the commonest of them but then there are other names common in a region but not elsewhere. Several places in the southern U.S. I have heard Zephyranthes atamasco call Easter lilies by "locals". I don't suppose the confusion there has to be explained. I have heard spider lily used for Crinum americanum, Crinum asiaticum, and Lycoris radiata as well as Hymenocallis. There are several obedient plants and milkweed includes more than Asclepias. There is a plant commonly grown around this area called the Philippine violet which is a member of the Acanthaceae called *Barleria cristata. *It is purple but obviously not a violet and it originates from India and Burma and just for kicks is also called bluebells. Then mock orange was brought up; was *Philadelphus *intended or* Pittosporum *meant since both shrubs are called by that name. *Philadelphus *is also called English dogwood too which it is neither assuming we all agree with what is called a dogwood. Being a name nut and really good at digression, I could drag this on, but instead- I would bring up a frustration relating to the original topic. That would be the name "South African hybrid Amaryllis" referring Hippeastrum hybrids presumably developed in Africa and I assumed named such to separate them from Dutch hybrids. I could not count the number of people who have expressed that they thought these would not grow in the southeastern U.S. because they had heard that about the South African * Amaryllis. *Alani Davis Tallahassee, Florida Where Crinum are still in flower