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Aug 9, 2015 3:51 PM CST
Name: Kabby
Lowndesboro, AL (Zone 8a)
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Hey @SarasotaPatty I didn't want to give up on the ID of this plant until I talked to my crinum guru, Alani Davis. He has taken many crinum pictures for the Pacific Bulb Society. I don't know how to link, somebody help me here!
Here's what he has to say:
" I think what you have in these photos is one of the green leaved forms of Crinum procerum. The purple leaved types are so ubiquitous that the typical green leaved ones have almost gotten forgotten. I grow some pedunculatum and at least mine have a wider spreading form and don't offset or at least extremely rarely. The flowers have particularly long tubes and shorter straighter tepals that are less curly that the asiaticum and procerum clones I have. They are close in many ways so its not easy but I usually associate that more upright growth form with procerum as well as extra wide leaves which are usually shinier that asiaticum and pedunculatum types."

So not pedunculatum. In ATP database asiaticum var. asiaticum is synonymous with asiaticum procerum. It's a beautiful flower anyway you put it!
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