Hi Jim & Randy, yes this is a robust species, good & self supporting. One other thing the sweet little old lady mentioned is the buds are quite dark pink, & i noticed the filaments are quite dark too, so could that be possible, all the C. Gowen ive seen so far are very pretty pastel shades ? Steven : ) Esk Queensland Australia Summer Zone 5 Winter Zone 10 On 20 March 2012 09:48, Jim Lykos <jimlykos@bigpond.com> wrote: > Hi Steven and Randy, > > I saw the Crinum in your picture in full flowering at Tully Heads (Tropical > Queensland) in a front yard of home a month before the devastating cyclone > destroyed much of Tully about 14 months ago. One point of distinction from > C. gowenii is that the plant at Tully was very robust with wide leaves > about 1.3 metres high and there were many mature bulb offsets and large > broad flowers - the scape was thick and showing flowers just above the > foliage - instead of well above the foliage as seen in most C. > bulbispermum > hybrids. > > Cheers > Jim Lykos > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Randy.R" <steyrhahn@yahoo.com> > To: <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> > Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 6:37 AM > Subject: [pbs] Crinum Identification please > > > Steven, > > Your crinum appears to me to be a goweni type. here's a picture of my > goweni > Hoboken last summer. > > http://randyrick.us/Flower/ Garden/Gowen Hoboken July 2011.JPG<http://randyrick.us/FlowerGarden/…> > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbwiki/<http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/> > --
