Champagne Hybrids

F1 Champagne Hybrid

F1 Hybrid : The first generation plants were dull white and not especially noteworthy.

F2 Hybrids : When the first generation plants were crossed with each other, some produced exceptionally beautiful flowers, with a color hither to undescribed for Crinum. They are pale pink, suffused with pale gold highlights (as in old rose glass) and with varying green throats.

The 'Champagne' series is a Marcelle Sheppard creation, obtained with lots of years of waiting and prudent culling. The original cross was C. bulbispermum 'Alba' x C. flaccidum (yellow form). The F1 progeny were unexceptional, mostly being pale- or dull-white. However, the F2 progeny (F1 x F1) produced some especially beautiful pale pink-flowered clones. Marcelle has decided that some of these colors are a new Crinum color; she has called it "champagne" to acknowledge the pale pink overlayed upon a pale shimmering and diffuse creamy gold and green.

Therefore, Marcelle has some clones she calls 'Champagne No. 1' (or "best champagne"), as well as 'Champagne No. 2' and some others. Of course, there is really no deciding which is the best 'Champagne'. Meanwhile, we can all enjoy the photographs.

Champagne No. 1 (an F2 hybrid)

Champagne No. 2 (an F2 hybrid)