I was going to say it looked a little bit like my L. houdyshelii, but mine is I think creamier and a little bit ruffled on the tepal edges. I think my first should be open in full tomorrow. I'll try and remember to see it as a fresh bloom and compare. Whatever it is, I like it. Eh hem, and if anybody asks to buy it from you, just let it be known that I asked first. :-) Mr. Kelly M. Irvin 10850 Hodge Ln Gravette, AR 72736 USA 479-787-9958 USDA Cold Hardiness Zone 6a/b On 8/12/14, 8:10 PM, Nicholas plummer wrote: > Last summer, I bought a Lycoris squamigera from Tony Avent at one of the > Plant Delights open houses. The plant is currently blooming, and it's > clear that it is not L. squamigera. I thought that another customer at the > nursery must have switched tags around, but when I sent a a photo to Tony, > he replied that it didn't match any of the plants they are currently > selling at PDN, and he suspected that it arrived mixed in a batch of L. > squamigera bulbs from the Netherlands. > > Photos are here: > > http://s1279.photobucket.com/user/myrmecodia/… > > Can anyone speculate on its parentage or identify it as a known clone, > possibly Dutch? > > The plant was dormant through the autumn and winter and produced fairly > short lived foliage in Spring. The inflorescence is about 21" (53 cm > tall). Distance from the green ovary to the tip of a sepal is > approximately 3.5" (8.9 cm), and the natural spread measured from petal tip > to petal tip across the face of the flower is approximately 3.25-3.5" (8-9 > cm). > > Nick Plummer > Durham, NC, USA > USDA Zone 7 > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >