Date: 13 Aug 2020, Entry id: 1597311061-1
This unknown Florida native form of Crinum americanum might actually
represent an unpublished species! We have a few of these, they are very special
and now nearly 2 years old plants.
This most beautiful and fragrant of Florida's native lilies, most commonly
known simply as "Swamp Lily", has a very wide native range, extending from
the Everglades northward across all of the Gulf states. While being wide-spread
in distribution, natural colonies generally occur widely separated from one
another, often by miles. Because isolation of breeding populations often
leads to speciation due to intense in-breeding, many of these populations develop
traits which make them distinct...