Hi Alberto Crinum Venosum is an Australian Native, smaller in stature than many crinums, with a thin leaf. One local South East Queensland discovery was made about, 100km or so west of me, when it was being investigated as a possible Crinum Flacceedum sighting. What a lovely surprise & i bet i'm the only person who ever found them in wivenhoe dam, they were in incredibly thick scrub areas far from any civilization....& really off the beaten track, completely protected by Mount Glorious on one side & cut off by grazing properties on the other. I prefer to keep locations secret because of intense poaching of seeds & bulbs. But now that i'm older i would speak up if i thought populations would ever be disturbed again by development.... It is very similar to its cousin, with beautiful but simple white fragrant flower, not as strong as flacceedum in fragrance. The petals are more rigid sharp to the tip like a double edge dagger, unlike Flacceedum which has quite a good parabolic curvature to outer edge of the petal & a slight back turned more rounded tip. They both flower from the bace & produce occasional offsets at random if they have a happy season. The flower is quite open star shaped & upright, unlike the yellow Crinum F Luteolum from Western Australia, which is slightly more bell shaped. The pollinating parts of Venosum flower are less prominent. Seeds are large & random & never in profusion. Habitat crosses over for Flac & Veno & they could be easily be mistaken to the untrained eye. They have a shorter lass robust leaf than Flaceedum & are slower growing too. Natural habitat is usually dry creek beds in aluveal sandy loam soils but they will tollerate many soils if they have to. Super drought tolerant, but can easily stand good rain too. Super hardy & live in areas that can receive super hot wet summers & very cold but not so long frosted winters. I dont have frost so mine grow almost all year, only becoming dormant for a very short couple of weeks or so sometimes. I will Wiki list these all soon as i can, hope you enjoyed the info.... Steven On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Alberto Castillo <ezeizabotgard@hotmail.com>wrote: > > Which species is Crinum venosum? > >