Haemanthus Coccineus
Mary Sue Ittner (Sat, 14 Mar 2020 13:19:38 PDT)

The Amaryllidacae of South Africa book:

https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

reports great variability in the leaves, from 60 to 700 mm long (2 26/64
to 27 9/16 inches). The leaves on the plants I've grown from seed have
behaved very differently. The ones I planted out have hardly grown much
at all, obviously not really happy although I finally got a small flower
out of one of them. I have two in large pots sunk in large pots in a
couple of raised bed with sand-gravel between the pots. I have to pull
the pots out every year to check for redwood roots making their way into
the pots (not much chance of water logged pots when you live in the
redwoods). The plants have grown bigger and bigger every year and have
flowered for a number of year (if the birds don't get the flower shoots
which I now protect when they start to appear). The leaves are getting
bigger and bigger, but not as big yet as Chad's. I went out and measured
after his post and the biggest one is 16.5 inches (419 mm) and add the
widest spot 7 inches (177.8 mm). I don't think the flower seems to be
getting any larger.

Mary Sue

On 3/13/2020 10:58 AM, Chad Cox wrote:

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