Hi Alberto,

There is an article by George Cowlishaw (a solicitor, horticultural author,
and plant breeder) in Vol 2 of Herbertia (1935) "Notes on Amaryllid
Activities in Australia." In the article he covers the breeding of Crinums,
Clivias, Hippeastrums and intergeneric Amaryllis hybrids in Australia and
mentions that he saw C. pedunculatum x C. moorei hybrids prior to 1924 with
light to deep pink flowers (probably made by HB Bradley) . He himself
remade this cross in 1924 - flowering 9 bulbs in 1929. I quote from the
article: ""the growth of the plant was intermediate between the two parents
, more massive than moorei and not so tall a pedunculatum, with its foliage
appearing much like the latter." He claims that he obtained two different
hybrid forms one being deciduous like moorei, with large perfectly shaped
white and highly perfumed flowers, and the more promininet evergreen form
where the flowers were pink and starry shaped.
Bill Morris in the 1960's found the dark pink pedunculatum hybrid in a
suburban garden near Cowlishaw's residence. The cross was remade by Bruce
Knight about 15 years ago - and I was fortunate to get offsets of both of
these from John Henderson who lives in Brisbane. I have flowered them for
the past two years.
I can assure you that they look like half sized pedunclatum's with broader
slimmer leaves and that they offset slowly and never split.

Cheers
Jim Lykos

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From: "Alberto Grossi" <crinum@libero.it>
To: "pbs" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 5:55 AM
Subject: Re: [pbs] Crinum

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