Crinum information from Dave Lehmiller
Alberto Castillo (Fri, 30 Jan 2004 04:42:19 PST)

Dear all:
Since there is an increasing attendance of people that are
obviously newcomers to the world of bulb cultivation, let us add a few words
on David. He is a doctor from Texas that has as a hobby the study of
Crinums. Crinum as he briefly says in his comment is (rather was) in an
impossible
taxonomic confusion. Certain problems were impossible to solve for
specialists like Les Hannibal or amateurs like Thad Howard for the simple
reasons that the comings and goings of those Crinums in cultivation could
only be guessed. David took the most radical approach: to travel to each of
the original locations and collect the real thing. This sound sensible but
implied going to remote places in Africa where only the original explorers
had been ...once, and remain equally remote and unapproachable. David
travelled to those original locations, collected these invaluable materials
and solved many taxonomical problems. He did this in his usual serious
silent way so his name is little known by most gardening people. I doubt
there is a monumental work like his being performed by a single individual
and this on his own private fundings!
All the best
Alberto

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