This is the second time this year that this bulb has bloomed -- May and now in September. When I first mentioned this bulb, I used the name ³minima.² Some thought that such a bulb did not exist. Then it was written up in the 1999 Herbertia with the name. The flower is different from S. formossima. The flower is about 50% the size of It's sister bulb-flower. It is different in that the center petal has a white stripe down the center. The structure of the leaves is different as well. The bulbs were a gift - indirectly - from the the collector in Mexico. I tried to get it to set seed when it bloomed last time. No success. Maybe this time.

Doug Westfall (7 Sep 2001)