Do you have a picture of the bulb?

I don't have a picture of the bulbs. I split them up and planted them in containers. I can take a picture of the plants if you want to see it, would that help?

Please do post a pic of the plant Cindra and we'll start from there.

Yes. Any picture you can post could help. From the description and the development of the seed, it doesn't seem like an amaryllis to me... But maybe it is just a weird little seed pod that decided to develop this way. 14 months for sprouting seems a little long for amaryllids.

Here are the pictures that I promised to post. I had to lean the mother bulb a bit to the side because I wanted to get the best shot I could of it. Still, it is probably buried to deep and I just repotted them a couple of days ago. The others I put into two pots cause I am giving them to someone else. Please be kind cause I'm no photographer! I hope these photos can help. The pod thing I tossed in the ficus pot was about the size of a large grape, green. What research I've been able to do leads me to believe that inside was where the seeds were but as I stated, at the time I had no idea what it was.

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From my eye view it looks like some kind lily, not like any of my amaryllis, but that may just be because of the angle. Sorry I can't be of further help Cindra. What was the flower like?

It has never flowered. I am going to put it outside this year and see what happens. I've gotten plenty of bulbs from it so will try one just to see.

In amaryllis, the leaves are coming from two directions and lean to the opposite side. This bulb seems to produce several leaves in a circular mode... Maybe not amaryllis. The seed pod of an amaryllis should dry up and open in a few days with a lot of little black split pea shaped, flat seeds. So by the time you found it in your package and planted it, it should have splitted and jittered everything all over with seeds. It might not be an amaryllis. But on the other hand, there are several kinds of species that look really different and might grow different seeds and leaves... When you get a flower, you most likely can tell 100 percent if what you have is amaryllis.

I meant the leaves are coming from the middle parallel to each other and they lean to the opposite directions.

I agree, Soultan, my first thought was some kind of crinum? Cindra, don't be discouraged. We'd love to find out what it is! It certainly looks healthy. If you had to plant it at an angle because the bulb or roots would not fit the pot properly, you may want to move it to a larger planter and let it keep on making more baby bulbs.

Thank you all so much for your words of wisdom. I appreciate the encouragement. I would and rather could be content just letting it have leaves and remain a houseplant but now that I found out it created so many bulbs I would kinda like to know what kind of plant it is and it appears the only way to really tell at this point is to try to get it to flower instead of just creating more and more leaves and bulbs.

My experience so far is that this plant loves water! But, that is about all I have figured out about it.

Cindeea, the reason the bulb is leaning is I did that to try to get a closer and clearer shot of what the top of the bulb looks like but the picture still isnt' very good. I straightened it back after I took the pictures. It was easy enough to do since I have just repotted it a couple of days ago.

I'll try to keep this post in mind and if I ever get flowers I'll be sure to post them for futher identification. So if anyone wants to suggest how to get this plant to flower instead of just growing leaves...lead the way and I'll do my best to follow :-)

Lots of sun and food.

could this be some type of swamp lily? We have some roadside lilies where I'm from that have massive bulbs (can be around 10 inches and higher). They very much resemble an amaryllis but you can see that there are differences.

Joy

I'm going to try to add a link here of some pods. Maybe these are the pods/seeds that were collected in Cuba.

Ok, here goes...if the pics don't show, somebody please tell me how to upload the pics.

Here is a link that might be useful: Crinum

Thank you for posting those images. The pod did look very simaliar to that but it was so long ago that honestly I don't remember exactly what it looked like, I only have a vague recollection.

I can tell you that the leaves do seem to grow from the middle parallel to each other and they lean to the opposite directions as soultan stated though it may not appear that way in the pictures that I uploaded.

I guess it could be the only reason it has never flowered and has remained a green leaf plant year around is because the bulbs are planted to deep???? who knows

Since I split the bulbs up into different pots and I am giving most of them away I am going to retain a couple and treat them as an Amaryllis bulb and see what happens. IF I end up with flowers at anytime I will take a picture and post it here so we can all see what this plant is. :-)

Thank you all so much for your help. I really appreciate it so much.

Cindi

"The pod thing I tossed in the ficus pot was about the size of a large grape, green."

Cindra~

This is a very apt description of a seed from Hymenocallis. I would suspect your plant to be one over a Crinum, whose seeds are more brownish-tannish than true green. Give it full sun (till it says otherwise)and feed it regularly in the summer and perhaps this year it will bloom.

R.