It looks to me like one of the South American amaryllids such as Phaedranassa or Stenomesson. On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 7:31 PM M Gastil-Buhl <gastil.buhl@gmail.com> wrote: > I posted my mystery bulb to the wiki. > https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… > Soon it will open and I will have more clues. I have had this bulb a long > time, since the late 1990's, but it has never before put up a bloom stalk. > It has been a lot of effort to keep it alive in the ground where it cannot > tolerate even the lightest frost and has been exposed to gophers and > careless feet. So last August I dug it up while its leaves were dormant and > potted it to keep under cover. The leaves die back when the soil dries but > I've noticed it will stay green if I water it. Then more leaves emerged > from bulbs I missed seeing so I had to build it a frost cage. The most > distinct feature is a light line down the center of the leaves, visible > from the top side of the leaf, not the bottom side. And the leaves are > narrow at their base, then wide in the middle. In some ways it resembles a > Hippeastrum. Just today someone mentioned Either blumenavia and that looks > vaguely similar. I will post again after it opens. > Any guesses? > > Gastil > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…