Traipse through any old Texas cemetery or yard and you are almost assured of running across one of the most enduring and cherished of southern bulbs, the crinum lily. Though they somewhat resemble them, crinums aren't actually lilies or even related to them.
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(Milk and Wine Lily) Crinum lilies are one of our most common old garden and cemetery plants. In many ways, they remind me of Texas and the South. They're huge, the biggest of all bulbs. They're so showy and fragrant that they border on being obnoxious.
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The Crinum Lily is a spectacularly huge lily. It grows rapidly to over 5' high with 5' long sword to strap shaped leaves. The Crinum Lily is a spectacularly huge lily. It grows rapidly to over 5' high with 5' long sword to strap shaped leaves. The plant is native to the tropics and subtropics, some species are native...
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It is growing in a group of 20 other crinum lilies. They are about 5' tall. Beaumont, Texas College Station, Texas Corpus Christi, Texas Desoto, Texas
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Zone 8b, Sam Rayburn Lake, east TX My Crinum Scabrum is currently blooming This old fashioned crinum lily is a low maintence plant that produces lovely...
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Mar 29, 2007 Dr. Howard is one of the world's leading experts on rain lilies, crinums and other amaryllids. Since he's from Texas, his advice is reliable...
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The crinum lily (Crinum X powellii) is one of the largest lily plants in Florida and Based in Rockdale Texas, Jim Gober has been writing garden-related...
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Poison Lily, Seashore Lily, Bakong (Malay); The Crinum Lily grows on sandy seashores or in the back mangrove. A very large lily, it grows from an underground bulb. The lower leaves form a stout pseudo-stem from which the leaves emerge in a rosette.
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This big crinum lily makes an imposing presence in the garden. The dark green strap-like leaves may be more than 3 ft (1 m) long and 4 in (10 cm) wide. These are held erect and arranged in a spiral rosette to form impressive clumps up to 5 ft (1.5 m) in height by 7 ft (2 m) in width.
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Location; Cape lily (Crinum X powellii) is of garden origin, the result of hybridization between two South African crinum lilies. Ohio; Oklahoma; Oregon; Pennsylvania; Rhode Island; South Carolina; South Dakota; Tennesee; Texas; Utah; Vermont; Virginia; Washington; West Virginia; Wisconsin; Wyoming...
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