Kevin Enge hatched an albino (Lavender type, I think) from a Tampa kingsnake pair that was found in the spot as sulfurs. I don't know if the "normal" parents had sulfur traits or not (probably). So the first lavender FL kings may have been sulfur lavenders. Lavenders have actually come in to FL kings from a few different sources, including Cal kings.

Sulfurs were collected in and near Tampa in coastal Hillsborough County, FL. Certain locales produced a lot of sulfur kings. It's not like there were only 1 or 2 collected. I've spoken with people that collected a lot of them during the 80s, and they were common at the time.

Len Krysko sold kings from this area as Sulfur kings and School Bus kings. I'm not sure if there was a distinction. As far as I knew he was the first to use the name "Sulfur"

Andy Barr had a line he called "Dream Kings". These were supposed to be pure Floridana but its often been speculated that they were crossed into cal kings, goini, etc...

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