Dear Art;
        Your idea - go to it!! (i have a life already!).  We a disagreement
already - i would choose O. bulbosa, because it is so incredibly
variable - i have a series from Zabzabar that would knock your socks off
(at the bourse at COA last year, people wouldn't believe that they were
all one species!).  Also, a drop-dead exeptional specimen of O. tricolor
is pretty hard to beat, even with red lips!
Cheers,
Ross M.
<Dear Ross;-
   My suggestion would be to pick (say) 20 families and have a
vote.
Maybe 25. The results would not mean a thing, but they might be
of some
interest to people who need a life. ---like me. My first vote
would be:
Oliva-----rubrolabiata.
    Art>
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