Rosie - the species is Plieone formosana.
I'll tell you an interesting thing I learned about them through a little narrative:
Someone sent me a corm to experiment with, so I potted it up in S/H culture. It bloomed nicely, then the foliage came up and it grew well. As Autumn approached and it started to die back, I realized I'd need to give it a winter rest (I just don't do that for my plants), so - being a converted deli container - I snapped a lid on the pot, so it wouldn't get fed and watered, and put it in a cool, shady place. AND FORGOT ABOUT IT UNTIL THE FOLLOWING MAY...
When I remembered it and opened it up, the space between the LECA and the lid was a mashed mass of foliage!
It continued growing nicely for several more years, but the submerged corms all grew on top of the medium, forming an irregular, ugly mass. It then went back into a "semi-terrestrial" mix and was later given away.
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