Nerine flexuosa was Lycoris query

Mary Sue Ittner msittner@mcn.org
Sun, 22 Apr 2012 20:37:56 PDT
I looked on the SANBI check list and it says Nerine flexuosa = Nerine 
humilis, Nerine undulata

So then I looked on the Plant List  and found this:
Nerine flexuosa (Jacq.) Herb. is a synonym of Nerine undulata (L.) Herb.
Nerine flexuosa Herb., p.p. is a synonym of Nerine humilis (Jacq.) Herb.
Nerine flexuosa var. alba Gumbl. is a synonym of Nerine undulata (L.) Herb.
Nerine flexuosa var. angustifolia (Baker) Baker is a synonym of 
Nerine angustifolia (Baker) W.Watson
Nerine flexuosa var. pulchella (Herb.) Baker is a synonym of Nerine 
humilis (Jacq.) Herb.
Nerine flexuosa var. sandersonii Baker is a synonym of Nerine 
laticoma (Ker Gawl.) T.Durand & Schinz

Nerine humilis is a winter growing plant and Nerine undulata a summer 
growing plant. I was curious about Eugene Zielinski writing:

>I checked Graham Duncan's Growing Nerines book (2002).  He notes 
>that Nerine flexuosa is a tall, winter growing form that occurs from 
>Somerset East to the north east of Grahamstown.  He recommends that 
>it be considered
>a winter growing form of N. undulata.

But after looking in my copy of that book I see that he was waiting 
for a taxonomic revision to clarify what it was and was in the 
meantime suggesting Nerine undulata. It is confusing in the meantime. 
Terry is your plant a summer grower or a winter grower? Graham Duncan 
also states on another page that Nerine undulata (=N. flexuosa 
'Alba') from the Eastern Cape is fairly hardly outdoors in the United 
Kingdom and The Netherlands.

Mary Sue




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