I subscribe to what you have written, Lee. Z. rojo is more popular in the Spanish speaking groups because it seems to be a native species from Central America, including Mexico. I happen to grow it, along with its sibling Z. estrella rojo. Both are very fertile and vigorous. The most content is on Hippeastrum. Obviously there are a lot of people who love this plant, but in a lot of these groups I see comments such as „Beautiful“ and „Thank you“. The more valuable one is about species only, called Planet Botanical Hippeastrum. There are also a few groups as „rare bulbs“ or „alpine bulbs“ or societies, which I personally find more useful and not to forget to mention those groups as „bulbs in habitat“, where various bulbs enthusiasts like us post pictures from their excursions in nature. Cheers, Vlad On Wed 2. Dec 2020 at 00:08 Lee Poulsen via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > Sometimes there are too many specialized bulb groups on Facebook, and > other times there are none. Take Hippeastrum for example. There are a lot > of groups for this genus, some overlapping, with at least a couple that > only allow discussion of species, while others include any Hippeastrum at > all. Then there are amaryllid groups and South American bulb species, as > well as specific amaryllid family groups. There is a Tigridia and related > genera group but only in Spanish. There are multiple Worsleya groups. There > are also multiple Zephyranthes/Habranthus groups in English and in Spanish. > And you find people posting the same, marvelous photographs of rarer > species to 3 or 4 groups simultaneously. I find it difficult to keep up. > And the comments get split across related groups for the same photographs. > On the other hand, sometimes you only see certain amazing species on just > one of the multiple-group genus groups. For example, there is a blood-red > Zephyranthes species (?) in Mexico that is beautiful, but I never see much > detail discussed about it, and only in Spanish. > > It’s both a blessing and curse. > > --Lee Poulsen > Pasadena, California, USA - USDA Zone 10a > Latitude 34°N, Altitude 1150 ft/350 m > > > > On Dec 1, 2020, at 1:05 PM, Diane via pbs < > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > > > > We have such a broad range of interests in PBS that I am surprised at > how specialized some groups can be. > > > > There are societies for bulbs that have a lot of species, like Iris and > Lilium. > > > > I’ve just discovered a Facebook group called Paramongaia Lovers. It has > 508 members, but I am not a member so can’t check out any messages. > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>