I don't have the name to this burgandy color leaf crinum..It is still small,have not bloomed for me yet, and putting out babies!!!..lol..
Burgandy color leaf Crinum
Well...it is not Queen Emma.... But I think that cv. is called Princess Beatrice around here.... I love them!!!
Carol, what would be the difference between this one and a Queen Emma? I bought one as a Queen Emma that is much more burgandy than this and is growing very slowly. It's in full sun (in this heat and humidity) and I wonder if I should move it to a less sunny area. I hope mine is really a Queen Emma.
Crinum procerum 'Splendens'
okay..Thanks Tom..nice to see ya again...My plants that I got from you in Ga..are doing great...
BDunn...the very purple leafed one is Queen Emma. I grow mine in full sun and we are about 900ft. altitude...so your lower elevation should be fine. They DO like lots of water...lots and lots and lots of water. My QEs are fairly fast growers, in fact...but then we have 160" of water per year.... Gosh, you remind me...I should fertilize them.... Anybody know the PERFECT fert. for them so I can approximately come close?
Carol
How often do you fertilize, Carol? Mine gets Miracle Grow every couple of weeks, but maybe I'll do it once a week since I'm going to step up the water. I'll wait to hear the recommendations for fertilizer.
I picked up some seeds from a deep burgandy one in FL. There were no other criniums in the area and the owner told me they come true from seed. My babies, about 16" now, are all partially green like the one pictured. Perhaps they need some age before they become all red????? Mine are in full sun and have not been getting much water, I will start watering and see what happens.
Nadine, if it is from jerry's jungle, it is crinum asiatium var. procerum. beautiful, slowest grower, and does it ever like water! I think my being stingy with water made it even slower. I've mended my ways and it is growing at a slightly faster rate. Mine has 2 tiny pups for the first time this year. planted inground, part sun.
http://crinum.iconx.com/html/cinumspecies.html
Up to now I have been throwing 14-14-14 on them....or anything I have in my pocket as I pass by. I am guessing here...but I know the pups come up like the Mama...perhaps the seeds don't come true. Queen Emma is not a species...so it could revert?
Carol
It's most likely a crinum procerum...they tend to be darker in the leaves, and tend to run truer from the parent plant with it's seeds.
Crinum procerum amabiles, although still burgandy(ish) fluxuate in their color, because they are a later down the line of development cross off of procerums.
Both unfortunately, because of their confusing histories, are sold under the same name, or crossed names, so you aren't really sure which one you will get. Seeing one with dark leaves at a nursury, is the best way to buy one, to guarantee the darker color (although both are very attractive)
They both have the asiaticum type bloom, where it's a large cluster of spidery fragrant blooms, instead of the larger trumpet blossoms. Each one can develop it's own seed, but most times you will have to hand polinate this variety.