Stoloniferous crinum

Víctor Hugo Menéndez Domínguez mdoming@gmail.com
Sat, 11 Oct 2014 07:45:20 PDT
This is mine … Crinum erubescens. Are in a humid zone in my backyard.

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-WgesyjAKkfY/…
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-nM3__MHuED0/…
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-r85Vh2T6RHQ/…

Only have direct sunlight by a pair of hours

Greetings !!!

El 11/10/2014, a las 09:12, Cynthia Mueller <cynthiasbulbs@hotmail.com> escribió:

> When you next get a bloom, check to see if the stalk has a reddish cast to it = erubescens. Crinum americanum will grow in ordinary flower beds, but doesn't flower as much as it would have in a moister setting. 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Oct 10, 2014, at 9:16 PM, "Lin" <barkingdogwoods@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I answered an ad on Craigslist for some free bulbs  - the lady said tall
>> white lilies that had taken over a bed, so I was imagining Formosan lilies.
>> When I got there, she directed me around the side of her house, where I
>> found a bed full of stoloniferous crinum that had spread by both seed and
>> stolon. None were currently in bloom, but some had seed pods.
>> 
>> The lady said that they bloomed white, and that she was given them by a
>> friend many years ago, and thought that 'crinum' sounded like the name :) .
>> The bed they were in was normal garden soil, and she said it wasn't a wet
>> area. I dug up one bulb with a bud, but some critter nipped that off the
>> first night here. 
>> 
>> My best guess is erubescens, but are there any ways I can really identify
>> them?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Lin Grado
>> Zone 8 in Texas
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> pbs mailing list
>> pbs@lists.ibiblio.org
>> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php
>> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/
> _______________________________________________
> pbs mailing list
> pbs@lists.ibiblio.org
> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php
> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/




More information about the pbs mailing list