Crinum x herbertii, Milk and Wine Crinum

Crinum x herbertii, Milk and Wine Crinum

Crosses between C. bulbispermum and C. scabrum typcially result in plants with nice flowers that hang downwards (like bells).  The flowers have a pink or red stipe on white (or very pale pink) petals.  The precise colors and other details depend upon the qualities of the parent plants.

Known as "Milk and Wine Crinums," C. x herbertii plants are durable and tough.  Many are nicely fragrant and reliable rebloomers--often sending up waves of flowers till frost if well watered and fertilized.  Like many Crinum the flowers hold up best in cooler weather, or in places with half-day shade, but C. x herbertii plants often do quite well in apparently horrible conditions. 

Crinum x herbertii