Crinums in tropical gardens

[doranakandawatta]

I feel that Crinums are matching well with palms, so we have some species in Doranakanda garden:

Some Crinum grow in the wild too, we bring them in the garden (pic 1)

[_Keith]

Crinums are some of my favorite plants.

[doranakandawatta]

We have Crinum xanthophyllum and one bigger variegated Crinum in Doranakanda garden.

This variegated Crinum seems to loose his variegation and becomes green, either due to the season or to full sun, I don't know!

Crinum xanthophyllum was flowering.

(the blue wall is not photoshop's work but new paint!)

[doranakandawatta]

In Peradeniya:

We found this dark red Crinum last august, but I ignore his name, I hope I'll propagate it and plant bigger beds.

Here as ground cover around our Loxococcus rupicola

[Silas_Sancona]

Philippe, great pictures! Crinums are definitely great accents in a palm garden. Curious if you have grown C. jagus there. really nice species.

-Nathan-

[LilikoiLee]

I found this at a Big Box store. The garden manager was complaining that the nursery had sent her the wrong plant. Shed ordered the red one. I immediately bought the only one that had come in because I had never seen one before.

I planted it along our driveway.

Like all crinum it puts out tons of seeds and the keiki grow at the base of the mother. Within a few months we were able to plant one of the keikis on the other side of the driveway. Recently they have both started to put out pure white plants. Ive dug up a few of them but none have survived. I suspect this is because the seeds drop so closely together it is impossible to get a reasonable amount of root. I think the only way we will get the white ones to grow is to pot every seed we collect and hope that we some of them are pure white.

Does anyone else have a variegated crinum with pure white keikis? Have you had any success growing the white ones?

Lee

[Palmdude]

Wow! That white is incredible! We have the green ones that are native to Florida,

Philippe I like the blue wall! That one Crinum is cool with the very erect leaves

[Palmdude]

Lee I'm praying that the pups of my variagated Crinum come out white like yours! Don't give up on the keiki's you divided, they don't necessarily need root to be successful, they're tough plants Nd will likely grow new roots and come back for you, also maybe let them get a bit larger before dividing

Edited January 30, 2014 by Palmdude

[Palmdude]

Phillipe I'm glad you started this thread! I would have never known Crinums such as this existed! Crinum stuhlmannii.

Edited January 30, 2014 by Palmdude

[Palmdude]

Here's a link to some cool Crinums notice that at the top and bottom of the page it says A-B. C-D etc. Make sure to check em out from A-Z lots of cool Crinums out there! Who knew !

[doranakandawatta]

Palmdude,

I thank you for your posts,

.....Here's a link to some cool Crinums

Is the link inside the ? .... Who knows?

[LilikoiLee]

Wow - Thanks for all the wonderful Crinum pictures. I had not seen those species before. I partiularlly like the variegated yellow one.

They truly proliferate like weeds here in Hawaii. We started with one rubby colored one and quickly ended up with 2 dozen in the same small area, Digging them up didn't work: they just kept coming back.and spreading into a larger and larger area. Mike finally took a chainsaw to them and poisoned them with something really nasty. Within a couple of months they were back and taking over again. We really like them but would like to be able to plant some other things (possibly palms?) in our garden.

Lee

[LilikoiLee]

Lee I'm praying that the pups of my variagated Crinum come out white like yours! Don't give up on the keiki's you divided, they don't necessarily need root to be successful, they're tough plants Nd will likely grow new roots and come back for you, also maybe let them get a bit larger before dividing

Alas, Even the ones with some roots died. And I mean dead in the sense that they shriveled into something that looked like mashed potatoes with a sprinkle of chives.

No matter. I'm not giving up and will get those all white crinum no matter what it takes.

Lee

[tropicbreeze]

All white Crinums (plants) won't work. They'd have to be parasites, saprophytes, or dead. No photosynthesis for Crinums, no life.

[Palmdude]

Ahhh! interesting point! Makes perfect sense

[Palmdude]

ROFLMAO!!!!! Philippe pardon my drain bammage! I forgot to paste the link!!!!! Lol here it is

http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/CrinumSpeciesFour

[doranakandawatta]

.... Mike finally took a chainsaw to them and poisoned them...

Horror movie in Honolululywood studios!
I knew Mike is a dangerous character!

[Palmdude]

Lol

An interesting thing I just learned is that Crinums are related to and can be crossed with Amaryllis

[The Silent Seed]

Those are called Amarcrinums.

Also, there's Crinodonna.

[Palmdude]

Here's a cool one I found today growing on the side of the road, I didn't have a camera so I grabbed a flower, unfortunately no seeds were on or near the plant the leaves were green and the flowers looked like this

[Palmdude]

Smells like candy!

[Silas_Sancona]

Great link Palmdude, lots of interesting species to try, if you can locate sources for bulbs/offsets. Aztec lilies (Spreckelia formosissima), and OxBlood Lilies (Rhodophiala bifida) are two other awesome members of this family for the garden.

-Nathan-

[Palmdude]

Oh interesting Nathan! It's nice to learn something new every day

[doranakandawatta]

Some Crinum in Peradeniya: