Mike, Congratulations on your new hybrid. I hope it isn't sterile. Is there some reason you expected there might not be any diamond dust visible on the flowers? Although this trait does vary significantly between the countless number xAmarygia accessions just like all the other myriad of traits (including flowering time), I don't recall ever seeing a flower from a Les Hannibal or Bill Welch plant without any diamond dust, regardless of color, white to red. Diamond dust is even visible on the petals of Amaryllis belladonna flowers. However, I do think the diamond dust on B. marginata flowers appears slightly more coarse although this could be an optical illusion since the B. marginata flowers are significantly smaller than the flowers of xAmarygia or Amaryllis. Attached picture of a typical xAmarygia flower. Zoom in to get a better look at the diamond dust. Nathan At 08:45 PM 9/17/2020, you wrote: >In 2011, I crossed Brunsvigia marginata with one of my Amaryllis >'Multiflora' plants (or xAmarygia or whatever we're supposed to call the >bulbs bred by Les Hannibal). Today the first flower from that cross opened, >and I've attached a copy. > >..... > >I didn't see the flowers in direct sunlight today, but it looks like they >may have a bit of the "diamond dust" sheen that you get in B. marginata. >That would be fantastic! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Amaryllis diamond dust.JPG Type: image/jpeg Size: 750300 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/…> _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…