your welcome. I also found this in a recent ebay auction: Hippeastrum pardinum (first image) is often mixed up with H. neopardinum (third image, not up for bidding in the current offer), a dubious taxon which is said to be found near a village called Atén in Nor-Yungas Province of the Department of La Paz, Bolivia. Some growers consider that H. neopardinum to be a variation of H. pardinum as âÂÂneoâ is a Latin prefix which stands for âÂÂnewâÂÂ. Len Doran opines that the prefix is assigned to H. neopardinum as it is âÂÂsimilarâ / âÂÂclosely allied toâ H. pardinum. My observation of the flowers and growth habit suggests that there are significant differences between the two: the dotted pattern of H. pardinum appears to be rather coarse (see first image and second image of a drawing extracted from plate 633 of Flore des Serres, with courtesy). Nevertheless, H. neopardinum is noticeably distinguished by the fine, linear pattern. Besides, the segments of H. pardinum are largely elliptical-ovate in shape but the segments of H. neopardinum are lanceolate with an acute apex. In cultivation, H. pardinum is always self-sterile and multiply slowly by means of vegetative growth. On the contrary, H. neopardinum is a self-fertile species which makes viable seeds.

Up to now I performed the following hybridizations, where H.papilio was involved, successfully: The cybister cross as above in both directions. As well as H.papilio x "Pink Floyd" and reverse H.papilio x H.aulicum v.robustum and reverse H.papilio x "Donau" (4ploid) yielding only 2 viable seeds which were raised into bloomability H.papilio x ("Donau" x "Ambiance")(presumably 4ploid) yielding 12 seeds and 5 good seedlings which have alrady bloomed, too. That means that with a very low but existing feasibility seeds will be produced if H.papilio is pollinated with a 4ploid. On the other hand I NEVER experienced any successfull pollination of a tetraploid amaryllis by pollen from a diploid cultivar for example H.papilio. I think that the #2 of H.papilio x ("Donau" x "Ambiance") is the most bizarre amaryllis I have ever produced:

Very nice picture and Dome!...looks like it broke sometimes ago? Konrad

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