This is mine … Crinum erubescens. Are in a humid zone in my backyard. https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-WgesyjAKkfY/… https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-nM3__MHuED0/… https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-r85Vh2T6RHQ/… Only have direct sunlight by a pair of hours Greetings !!! El 11/10/2014, a las 09:12, Cynthia Mueller <cynthiasbulbs@hotmail.com> escribió: > When you next get a bloom, check to see if the stalk has a reddish cast to it = erubescens. Crinum americanum will grow in ordinary flower beds, but doesn't flower as much as it would have in a moister setting. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Oct 10, 2014, at 9:16 PM, "Lin" <barkingdogwoods@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I answered an ad on Craigslist for some free bulbs - the lady said tall >> white lilies that had taken over a bed, so I was imagining Formosan lilies. >> When I got there, she directed me around the side of her house, where I >> found a bed full of stoloniferous crinum that had spread by both seed and >> stolon. None were currently in bloom, but some had seed pods. >> >> The lady said that they bloomed white, and that she was given them by a >> friend many years ago, and thought that 'crinum' sounded like the name :) . >> The bed they were in was normal garden soil, and she said it wasn't a wet >> area. I dug up one bulb with a bud, but some critter nipped that off the >> first night here. >> >> My best guess is erubescens, but are there any ways I can really identify >> them? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Lin Grado >> Zone 8 in Texas >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pbs mailing list >> pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/
