Is it a Dierama? The papery bracts around the flowers and the "long drooping stems and grass-like leaves" seem very Dierama-like. D. pulcherrimum is common in cultivation but there are many others. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… Guesses on other pics that don't appear to be solved yet: Robert Hoel's plant looks like an Asphodelus. Garry Koenigsberg's plant look like an Albuca. On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 11:17 AM Mary Sue Ittner <msittner@mcn.org> wrote: > I just added a photo for Kathleen Sayce of a plant she'd like help in > identifying flowering in a pot labeled crinum, which died. She describes > it as having lovely cool pink flowers on long drooping stems and > grass-like leaves. I think it looks like an Ixia, maybe what was used to > be known as Ixia rapunculoides which is flowering for me now (well at > least it has tried to flower in spite of the constant rain we've had > until recently.) > > In 2008 Goldblatt and Manning studied that species and split it up to > I. flaccida with small, short-tubed white- or pale blue-flushed flowers, > soft-textured leaves and corms with basal cormlets from the Olifants > River Valley and nearby; I. sobolifera from the Western and Little > Karoo, which has linear leaves, nodding spikes and flowers and corms > with stolons (3 subspecies); I. oxalidiflora with fully included > anthers, a longer perianth tube, 16-20 mm, and ascending purple-pink > flowers with a white cup; and I. lacerata from the Klein Roggeveld with > a longer perianth tube, 10-14 mm long, and attenuate, slightly lacerate, > 5-veined, dry, rust-tipped bracts. I. rapunculoides var. namaquana > (L.Bolus) G.J.Lewis, defined by a longer perianth tube, mostly 13-16 mm > long, horizontally oriented, white, pale lilac or pink flowers and > few-flowered lateral branchlets was treated as I. namaquana. Two more > varieties, I. rapunculoides var. subpendula G.J.Lewis and var. rigida > sensu G.J.Lewis, which have upright flowers and distinctively branched > stems were treated as I. divaricata and I. contorta. Plants from > streambeds in the Roggeveld that have large, white flowers, were > described as I. rivulicola. I. rapunculoides var. robusta G.J.Lewis > with pink flowers, but four or five leaves and deep-seated corms with a > collar of coarse fibres around the stem base was raised to I. robusta. > > I extracted that from the paper but if you want to read it: > > http://abcjournal.org/index.php/ABC/… > > As is often the case there were no volunteers working on the wiki who > either had the time or the inclination to figure out what to do with the > photos we had of I. rapuculoides and to add all these new species. But > because of this splitting it may be a challenge to identify what she has. > > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >