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/