Pancratium
Tony Avent (Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:06:07 PDT)

Lee:

We have never had seed to set on our Pancratium foetidum, but check with
Archibald seed and perhaps they still carry it.

Tony Avent
Plant Delights Nursery @
Juniper Level Botanic Garden
9241 Sauls Road
Raleigh, North Carolina 27603 USA
Minimum Winter Temps 0-5 F
Maximum Summer Temps 95-105F
USDA Hardiness Zone 7b
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Lee Poulsen wrote:

Tony,
Do you offer this species for sale?

Jim,
I've grown several Pancratium species, some of which are even mature. :-)
But I've never had any of them bloom. I've even had P. zeylanicum for 15
years in a greenhouse; they're very healthy and have multiplied a great
deal since then (I keep promising to send some to Dell), but nary a
bloom have I ever seen from them.
Even the mediterranean climate ones I have (PP. maritimum, illyricum,
canarien-sis/-se), which should do well here, and grow well they do,
have never bloomed.
I have P. tenuifolium, but it's still too small to bloom.
Is Pancratium another one of those genera that only bloom when planted
in the ground?

Does anyone know of sources for any of the other P. species, esp. the
Asian ones?

--Lee Poulsen
Pasadena, California, USDA Zone 10a

Tony Avent wrote:

Jim:

The only Pancratium that we have had success with outdoors is Pancratium
foetidum which has been in the ground since 2000. It flowers for us in
late July.

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