This is growing in a friend's garden and we are trying to ID it for an upcoming garden tour there. I posted on the ID forum and both crinum and ornithogalum were suggested but I am not sure either of those plants fit this one.
The leaves are strap like and the flowers are arranged up the stem and are an inch or so apart. I could not get closer to get a better photo. The flower is about an 1 1/2" and it is blooming right now
Any thoughts? Thanks, alice
It looks as if there is a sharp vein-like crease down the leaf.
I'm thinking it's more likely a Hymenocallis because of the "vein"--not so much characteristic of Crinum, though they may be keeled and channeled. C. americanum has a fairly sharp crease, though.
Is there a true bulb? If so, that would rule out C. asiaticum which doesn't form one, just a thickened trunk.
Can you post more pix of the blossom? Looking to see if it has a little "bowl" with stamens as in Hymeocallis.
This message was edited Sep 30, 2006 12:41 PM
The only other photo I have is closer but fuzzy. Remember this is a small flower, maybe 1 1/2". My Hymenocallis has much larger blooms. No "cup" that I can see.
Well, I guess I completely ignored the inch and a half part, lol.
I can't see down into the blossom very well........
Those reflexed tepals really are something. And the long anthers..........
Hope someone knows this one, cause I sure don't recognize it.
This message was edited Sep 30, 2006 11:15 PM
