Crinum
James Waddick (Sun, 24 Jun 2007 11:54:55 PDT)

Dear Crinumistas...

I am sort of shocked you'd even suggest ID-ing a Crinum by if
it spits or not when so much depends on age and cultivation.
I admit these tropical 'look alikes' are a taxonomic mess,
but even me a Crinum wannabe-ista, knows to look for physical
characteristics such as the European Garden Flora:

Scape to 70 cm, flower stalks very short; style as long as
the filament - C asiaticum

Scape more than 70 cm. flower stalks 2.5 to 4 cm, style as
long as the filament - C. pedunculatum

And Hannibal separates C. asiaticum from procerum by various
characteristics, the most notable is the scape dimensions: 30-60
inches in Asiaticum, 4-6 feet in procerum. Scape on 30 inches in
pedunculatum and C. japonmicum is also in this mess with a scape of
12-15 in in length.

And I bet there's some even better factual info out there.

Just my 2 cents. Jim W.
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