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Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 7a -17.8 °C (0 °F) to -15 °C (5 °F)
Plant Height: 1-2 feet
Plant Spread: variable
Leaves: Unusual foliage color
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Color: Bi-Color: Pink and white
Flower Time: Summer
Late summer or early fall
Underground structures: Bulb
Suitable Locations: Xeriscapic
Uses: Cut Flower
Will Naturalize
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Hummingbirds
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Rabbit Resistant
Toxicity: Leaves are poisonous
Roots are poisonous
Fruit is poisonous
Other: All parts are poisonous if ingested
Propagation: Seeds: Start indoors
Other info: first flowering when grown from seed usually occurs in 3-8 years
Propagation: Other methods: Offsets
Bulbs
Other: some old and established bulbs can be huge, weighing up to 40 lbs; crinums do not like transplanting
Containers: Not suitable for containers
Parentage: Crinum bulbispermum x Crinum moorei

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Common names
  • Crinum
  • Crinum Roseum
Also sold as:
  • Crinum x powellii 'Roseum'

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Location: Kalama, wa
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Location: Blondmyk's Backyard, Corpus Christi, TX
Date: July 2014
Unsure whether or not this is a hybridization or not, but I've al
Location: In my Northern California garden
Date: 2013-07-15
Location: My garden near Lincoln UK
Date: 2008-08-22
It was reliable to flower every year, survived in a greenhouse ov
Location: Botanical garden of Madeira
Date: 2023-04-11
Location: Orangeburg, SC
Date: 2007-11-21
Pink crinum bloom
Location: Orangeburg, SC
Date: 2015-07-12
Crinum Powellii Pink buds and bloom
Location: Orangeburg, SC
Date: 2015-07-26
Crinum Lily Powellii Plant
Location: Botanical Garden of Copenhagen
Date: 2014-07-24
Location: My garden near Lincoln UK
Date: 2010-08-21
Spectacular in bud!
Location: North Carolina, USA
Date: June 18, 2006
This is the common form available from the Dutch. A very tough, p
Location: My garden in Kalama, Wa. Zone 8
Date: 2012-07-22
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Location: Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam
Date: 2017-02-23
Location: Nationale Plantentuin Meise (Botanical Garden near Brussels)
Date: 2014-10-06
Location: KALAMA WA
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Location: North Carolina, USA
Date: June 27, 2008
Although the flowers are small compared to other Crinums, a large
Location: Floors castle, Scotland
Date: 2011-07-21
Location: Hood, Alabama 
Date: 2023-04-25
Location: My garden in Kalama, Wa. Zone 8
Date: 2012-07-22
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Location: Nationale Plantentuin Meise (Botanical Garden near Brussels)
Date: 2014-10-06
Location: Botanical Garden of Copenhagen
Date: 2014-07-24
Location: North Carolina, USA
Date: June 10, 2006
An emerging scape.
Location: Southwest Florida
Date: May 2012
Location: Atlanta BG
Date: Aug 16

By Magnus Manske (Own work.) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/f
Location: Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid
photo credit: Cillas
Location: My garden in Kalama, Wa. Zone 8
Date: 2012-07-22
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Location: Macleay Island, Queensland, Australia
Date: 2014-09-17
The moths Brithys crini and Spodoptera picta love this lily or an
Location: Botanical garden of Madeira
Date: 2023-04-11
Location: East Tennessee
Date: 2016-07-16
Location: East Tennessee
Date: 2016-07-16
Location: North Carolina, USA. USDA zone 7b.
Date: March 31, 2007
Plants beginning their season. These plants were protected with a
Location: North Carolina, USA
Date: July 4, 2006
This Crinum is self-sterile, but can produce seeds on occasion wi
Location: North Carolina, USA
Date: August 18, 2006
Photo by Gleni
Location: Plano, TX
Date: 2013-04-16
Newly planted
Location: My garden in Kalama, Wa. Zone 8
Date: 2012-07-22
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Location: My garden in Kalama, Wa. Zone 8
Date: 2012-07-22
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Location: My garden in Kalama, Wa. Zone 8
Date: 2012-07-22
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Location: Middle Tennessee
Date: 6/6/2011
C. Powellii' blooming its first year
Location: Middle Tennessee
Date: 2012-03-13
new offsets arising from a large bulb (stays in the ground year a
Location: East Tennessee
Date: 7_09_16
Location: Manitoba, Canada
Date: 2015-07-30
Location: Cambridge University Botanic Garden
Date: July
credit: Magnus Manske
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Comments:
  • Posted by SongofJoy (Clarksville, TN - Zone 6b) on Feb 28, 2012 8:01 AM concerning plant:
    Crinum x powellii is a hybrid produced by crossing C. bulbispermum and C. moorei.

    These plants are durable and hardy, reportedly surviving into zone 6. Like C. bulbispermum, C. x powellii plants hold their leaves through light and medium frosts.

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