Crinum 'Peachblow'

Last week I wrote about Crinum 'Alamo Village' blooming in late April. It was immediately followed by Crinum 'Peachblow' (sometimes written 'Peach Blow'). The two plants seem related to me because both have fairly compact, attractive foliage and nicely scented flowers that open wide with narrow tepals and recurved, clawed tips. The wide open flowers with narrow tepals suggest that they both have the Southeastern United States native, C. americanum, or its South American counterpart, C. erubescens, in their ancestry. The recurved, clawed tips probably come from C. zeylanicum or its relation, C. latifolium. These hybrids may be complex and have genetic influences from other species, but I won't speculate on that.

Unfortunately, one of the other characteristics they share is the tendency for their scapes to topple. Although 'Peachblow' is the most susceptible of the two, both benefit from staking as the scapes rise and bloom. You might notice the handy stake supporting the scape in the picture of the whole plant below.