Here is my Queen Emma Crinum, it is just flowering again. The blooms are a bit wind blown, but you can see the shape of them. The leaves aren't as red on this one because its more shaded. I'll post a pup with more red on the leaves.
Queen Emma for Brian
Whole plant, this thing is HUGE. I just took off some pups, but you can see how big the trunk is on this.
Here is a pup that is in more sun, has been planted over a year.
Another pic of the flowers.
Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! blooms are very pretty.
Kaleem
Wow, I love this one, Susie.
Nice I have a few growing they take me forever to get them big here in KY. Mine are only 3 or 4 ft tall. Yours looks nice and healthy do you know of any others that have darker leaves? I have seen some that seem to stay a dark purple color.
cala, that is huge. is it potted? how long have you had? mine sure is growing slowly, planted inground, part sun.
I hate all of you! It seems every time I see a new pic posted, it gets recorded on my "I Want List". LOL! So this one just got added. It's beautiful, Cala.
Vossner, I've had this one for two years, but it was big when I bought it. They sell these from little pups to big 20 gallon containers(those are a bit expensive, I bought a 5 gallon container). It has grown a lot since I bought it. They like lots of water and seem to like bunny poo too.
Where do I get a bunny??
Gorgeous flowers!!!
Are crinum amabile the same thing? Is "emma" just a type/name?
MerryMary
Nevermind, found my own answer on pacificbulbsociety.org....Cala, are you sure you dont have an amabile? The Emmas have a softer pink bloom from what I can see, with petals that aren't as spikey.
MerryMary
www.pacificbulbsociety.org
Positive. Queen Emma has burgundy flowers with a white edge. Queen Emma comes in two forms, green leaf and red leaf. Here is C. amabile, notice the flower is not the same. http://www.worldwideexotics.co.uk/product/view/443
Wow, I want one of each. I like them both.
I have been wanting one of these for atleast 6 years and now I find out there is another. :o( How much was your 5 gallon if I may ask?
Sandy, the 5 gallon one was $40, but much more affordable than the 20 gallon(varied in price from $75-150). I figured since they were so common down here they would be cheaper. Boy was I surprised!
Mary got me to wondering about my crinum. I asked my good friend who knows lots of stuff(he's helping our county build a botanical garden) and he said C. amabile IS Queen Emma. So, I came back and started searching. Sure enough, the crinum "experts" agree. Here is a link from the crinum society, just look at these beauties! http://www.crinum.org/crinpics/ch_4.html
Quoted from their website:
Fig. 17: Crinum amabile Donn. A sterile hybrid from Sumatra. The blossoms resemble C. augustum but the bulbs are smaller like C. moorei with a long leafy neck supporting the spreading leaves. The bulb is known as the 'Queen Emma Lily' in Hawaii. Quite a planting exists at her summer home in Kauai.
So now I'm even more confused because my crinum is not sterile. Mine made seeds and they have germinated.
what ever she is Susie she is beautiful. Never see or heard of it before. We never get and good plants down here
Donna, you know all you have to do is say the word and a pup will be put aside for you! I think it would be hardy there with a little protection.
consider it said please. Thank you so much.
OK, one Queen Emma/Amabile/I'm not sure what the heck it is Crinum with your name on it, lol.
{{{{sorry Cala!}}}}
:) MerryMary
Calalilly...our Queen Emmas have deep burgundy leaves...and the flowers are white with burgundy pedicels and margins to the white corollas. It seems that here some pup and some set seed...and the same one can do both... I will try to get photos.
The green with burgundy shades to them are known as Princess Beatrice.
I have a red-leafed one that I bought at the New Orleans Botanical Gardens plant sale several years ago. It is a lot more red leafed than that one. It was named crinum splendens, and a lot less expensive than queen emma. I think I paid $10 for a one gallon pot, very small at the time. I'll post a pic later, maybe you crinum experts can tell me for sure that this is what it is. It has never bloomed for me.
Janet
I no longer have that plant, I sold my house.
Calalily,
Thanks for responding. Sorry, I didn't catch that this was an old thread, from 2005.
:o(
Sorry to hear you no longer have it.
It was beautiful.
Janet