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Ledebouria
There are no Ledebouria species native to China.
Show me this link to which you allude. Ledebouria violacea is actually the form of Ledebouria socialis with dark green leaves with purple undersides and should be considered just a cultivar as Ledebouria socialis 'Violacea'. Ledebouria socialis is extremely variable in leaf width and coloring and several different selections of it are now in cultivation. It is one of the few species in the genus with epigeal bulbs. Ledebouria revoluta is the most widespread species in the genus and is found throughout Africa, the Arabian peninsula and India and now has many synonyms. Beverly Erlebacher wrote in message . .. In article , Cereoid-UR12 wrote: Not a Ledebouria. The flowers are not orchid-like and they have all six tepals recurved. More likely its a Lachenalia. Its a big genus with many species and cultivars now in cultivation. Many of the species have maculate leaves. http://www.bulbsociety.com/GALLERY_O...CS/Lachenalia/ L achenalialist.html Thanks for the link. Dunno about Iris's plant, but mine looks very much like Ledebouria revoluta pictured there (click on the image of the raceme to see a bigger pic with leaves). The Lachenalias seem to have much more showy flowers. I'll have to take a magnifying glass to the flowers on my plant tonight! (Replace Lachenalia with Ledebouria in above URL or just browse the site, but wait until you've gotten all your work done first.) http://images.google.com/images?q=la...=en&btnG=Googl e +Search Both genera are primarily African but Ledebouria is also found on Socotra, the Arabian peninsula and in India. According to one of the Ledebouria links, there's even a Chinese species. Also, Ledebouria violacea seems to have been renamed L.socialis, or L.sociaris according to a Japanese site. ;-) |