Crinum

Crinum - A few S. African species of these are hardy and very beautiful. One of the best known is C. capense, 2 to 3 feet high, flowering late in summer, the large funnel-shaped pink blossoms in umbels of ten or fifteen blooms on a stout stem. There are several varieties—album, pure white; riparium, deep purple; fortuitum, white; and striatum, striped pink and white; and fine hybrids have also been raised—all good in borders or with groups of hardy plants that flower in early autumn; or for grouping near water.

Contents 1 Related Flowers 1.1 Crinum Crassifolium 1.2 Crinum Powellii 1.3 Crinum Yemense

Related Flowers

Crinum Crassifolium

Crinum Crassifolium - Grows well in warm soils, such as in the Cambridge Botanic Garden. It flowers earlier than C. capense, in June and July, with compact heads of flowers nine to twelve in number; many of them open at the same time. They are 3 inches long, white turning to deep rose, and very fragrant.

Crinum Powellii

Crinum Powellii - The best of hardy Crinums, raised as a cross between C. Mooreanum and C. capense. It bears smaller flowers than Mooreanum, but is hardier, and with a little care in severe winters will grow well in almost any part of Britain. It makes a large club-shaped bulb 2 to 3 feet long, with spreading leaves many feet in length and massive spikes of fragrant flowers during August. Strong bulbs will give three spikes in one season, eack spike bearing twelve to twenty pink flowers 6 inches across, with buds a deeper red, and opening in succession, so that the display lasts for some weeks. The bulb should be so deeply planted as to show only the upper part of the neck, the whole being surrounded with clean sand and the crowns covered up with leaves and bracken during winter. In cold places a spot at the foot of a south wall is best, and shelter for the leaves from cutting winds should be considered even where the extra warmth is unnecessary. There are two or three color varieties—album, pure white and the best of all.

Crinum Yemense

Crinum Yemense - also hardy in the south-west and other favoured parts of Britain, bearing large sweet-scented flowers of a beautiful satin-white color. The true plant is rare. In flower beauty, however, surpassing all other white flowering kinds.