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Crinum americanum 'Robustum'

Crinum 'Brilliant Pink' C. macowanii hybrid

Crinum amabile - (A natural hybrid)

C. amabile has a confusing and hard-to-sort-out history.  Likely, it has been confused many times with C. augustum and similar plants.  It is treated as a distinct species here but is considered by many to be a hybrid between C. zeylanicum and C. procerum.  In turn, C. procerum is considered by some to be a variant of C. asiaticum. 

Crinum augustum - (A natural hybrid)

Along the coast of Texas where frosts seldom occur, C. augustum flowers from November through February, and sometimes sporadically in the spring or summer.  The huge blooms are typically white with pink (or pale-magenta) stripes.  In nearly frost-free areas the plants can make a very large clump in a few years. 

Crinum 'Champagne' Hybrids

Crinum ‘Bayou Traveler’
(a cross between C. flaccidum and C. oliganthum)

This cross produced a great plant, sort of like a beefed up C. oliganthum; Marcelle selected a clone and has recently named it 'Bayou Traveler'.  The plants are about twice as large as regular C. oliganthum (i.e., 'West Indies Mini'), and they are much more prolific growers. 

Crinum 'Marcelle Sheppard'

This miniature plant is a cross between C. oliganthum and Rose City Schoolhouse C. scabrum No. 1.  The plant is not as small as C. oliganthum, but it is small as Crinum hybrids go.  Mr. Works reports that the foliage is 4-8 inches long and light in color, more like the color of C. scabrum than C. oliganthum. 

Crinum 'Mermaid' 

Crinum x herbertii, 'Milk and Wine'

Crinum procerum 'Bride's Maid'

Japanese embassy, dark-scaped seedling

A red scaped sibling to Bride's Bouquet

Crinum procerum 'Bride's Bouquet'

Produces an incredibly heavy bloom on established plants. It seldom sets seed. Brides Bouquet was grown by Marcelle from a seed collected at the Japanese Embassy in Hawaii by Mr. Hannibal.

Crinum 'Stars and Stripes'

The plant was created by Thad Howard, a cross between C. scabrum and C. erubescens.  It has excellent deep red coloration on clear white petals. 

Crinum 'White Queen'

Luther Burbank produced this amazingly beautiful plant. The flowers are pure white and have exquisitely recurved petals; the parents are C. powellii 'Alba' and C. macowanii.