Hi. I don't have variegated Iris... I have AMARYLLIS "Baby Doll" white with green "throat" to trade for your "Butterfly amaryllis" or Jacobean Lilies... I also have some other plants that are not in my trade list like Amazon Lily (Eucharis), Spider Lily both are limited qty, etc... Also, please, check my trade list for other plants. Please, let me know if interested. Thank You. This post was edited by julia-fl on Sat, Jun 7, 14 at 16:25

I have just a few seeds, selfed, from this nice plant, and I would like to trade for cybister seeds (or seedlings) or something unusual. I floated a few of these on watr, and they're already showing some root growth. Some of the seeds look quite viable, but don't have much of a 'paper coat' for some reason...they may not float on water. I should have more seeds from other plants in the next month or so. --Rick

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Among the hippeastrums I have grown so far, the species amaryllis H.papilio and H. aulicum v.robustum are the most diligent seed producers. However both need pollen from other gardeners amaryllis - self pollination simply fails. While H.aulicum v.rob. promiscuitely accepts the pollen from diploid species and hybrids as well as from tetraploid hybrids - and subsequently produces 80-120 seeds per pod, H.papilio tends to be more capricious and produces only chaff when pollinated with tetraploids (>100 seeds - but with a crippled - non viable - embryo) and sets rich seed but with the pollen from other diploids, for example up to 145 seeds when crossed with H.cybister "Chico". That was the greatest seed count I ever had the opportunity to experience. Some (diploid) species - and diploid hybrids (For example 'Giraffe' and 'Pink Floyd') - develop seed but very poorly. The just mentioned species amaryllis (H.cybister selection) 'Chico' produced seeds outdoors under my husbandry, after self pollination which had failed completely indoors on several occasions. So I was happy to observe these little Chico seed pods developing outdoors - and I did not care for that these tiny pods finally kept only 6 to 25 tiny seeds within (I had in wise forsightedness *g* self pollinated ENOUGH of these cybister blooms). The common mostly big blooming tetraploids are readily pollinated with themselves or among each other, and they yield typically 40 to 100 seeds per pod. It is sidereal hours if viable seeds are obtained from "impossible" crossings. One of this kind is the above mentioned crossing of H.papilio with pollen from "common" gardeners amaryllis. IF you finally find one or two viable seeds among the plenteously produced chaff you are holding potential treasures in your hands. H.papilio x 'Donau' href> href> click onto the th_ I regard the combining of H.papilio with the well known hybrids as the most rewarding hippeastrum breeding project. However this seems not so easy to be accomplished. I have not yet found any documentation of fhis kind of unification of "old" and "new" amaryllis. Hans-Werner