Type: Bulb
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Height: 2.00 to 3.00 feet
Bloom Time: July to september
Bloom Description: Wine red
Sun: Full sun to part shade
Flower: Showy, Fragran
Photographed along a ruralroad near Quincy in Gadsden County, these flowers are called 'hurricane lilies' by the local people, says botanist Loran Anderson. Their pungent sweet fragrance attracts many insects. An exotic species of Crinum, this plant gets naturalized from Florida to Texas.It originated in tropical Asia. The species is C. zeylanicum, also known as the "milk and wine" lily.In bunches they are beautiful to see and a surprise for anyone who comes across them in the wild.
'Ellen Bosanquet' is one of the reddest of the Crinum Lilies producing large bell-shaped deep reddish pink to nearly maroon colored outward facing trumpets on sturdy stalks to 3'H. This reliable old favorite is known to produce a succession of flowering stalks on well established clumps. Wide medium green strap-like foliage. Crinums are extremely easy old garden favorites that will thrive with little or no care.
Crinums are very long lived slowly multiplying clump forming bulbous perennials that will provide years of enjoyment in any well-drained soil. Drought tolerant once well established with few pests or diseases to bother them.
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