Wow they really are beautiful. How big are the flowers and bulbs. Could you include leaves in some photos? Are they very hard to grow? I ask because I have seen them for sale on ebay here in Australia and would like to give them a go!

Hi dizzy, the flowers are ~6cm long (not including ovary) and 2.5cm across at the widest point. The bulb is ~12cm in diameter so it is a pretty good size bulb. While they are evergreen, mine spent the last few weeks in very rainy, cool conditions so they lost the vast majority of their leaves before flowering so I will not embarrass myself with a pic of poor looking leaves right now. I find them pretty easy to grow as I have had 4 of them for 3-4 years now and they have grown and multiplied well (I have 6 offsets still attached to my mother bulbs). In my conditions I use 20% organic and 80% volcanic cinder/perlite. During the winter they grow under lights and get watered maybe once every 10 days and during the summer they get whatever rain falls, which is quite often here in Pittsburgh. I think you will have no problem growing them in OZ. Best of luck :o) Dan

Thanks Dan, I'll see how I go bidding on them.
BTW My Ammocharis coranica seedlings still look like thin blades of grass. Are they a slow growing bulb? They didn't lose their leaves over winter but don't look like they have grown either. I am feeding them diluted liquid from my worm farm (most of my hippeastrum seedling seem to love it) I am hoping that growth will pick up now that it's getting warmer here. Any advice?

Cheers
Di

Wow, what a BEAUTY!!!!

Oh how nice! I have them too, but not so long and my bulbs are much smaller. I hope, i will have so nice flowers in the future!

I buy this glorious flower from BULBOPHILE -- they sooo good. All seed germinated 2 weeks! Thankyou glorious picture.

Hi Dan,

That is absolutely stunning!!! I have a C. falcatus coming into bloom that I thought was a C. sanguineus all these years. I was so happy to see it bloom, cuz the next step was the compost heap. I'm glad I waited.

Fred