Amaryllis and Hippeastrums: Three buds on my papilios., 1 by raydio

raydio wrote:
I have never seen a picture showing more than two flowers per scape on a papilio. I know of only one source that says that papilio "occasionally" produces three per scape. I interpreted that as "rarely" and forgot all about it, since most sources (out of kindness?) don't even mention the number of buds. Two buds per scape just sounds so pathetic when others regularly produce eight.
I figured that it couldn't be that often, or there'd be more 3-budded pix, right?

I am delighted to see that two papilio plants have a 3-budded scape.

This is the first scape I noticed. The bud is a little funky--opened a bit when it shouldn't be, and a little runty.