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:Lorraine Clark is one of the darkest red crinum hybrids we have seen. The only other darker color we have in our collection is one we sell called 'Antares'. It looks more like the first couple of photos where the other pictures are more washed out by a flash. It is a genetically unstable hybrid and has produced some plants that have red flowers with random white stripes. If you look carefully you can see a couple of white streaks. This trait happens quite often with hybrids of Ellen Bosanquet. Although we are growing some that have LOTS of white color, even some entire flowers that are white. It's neat to have a plant with 2 different colored flowers at the same time. Unfortunately, there will not be enough of those to sell for a few more years.
The bulbs grow rapidly and can produce an amazing number of offsets when they have the right conditions. For example, one bulb we acquired was 1 3/4 in diameter in June of 2007. 18 months later it was 3 3/4 in diameter and had produced 30 new offsets but still had not bloomed. It blooms May - July here in northeast Florida, zone 9. The flowers open sequentially over several days. In a large grouping of bulbs they can be spectacular. We have observed mature bulbs with as many as 10 flowers on 22 tall scapes and our largest bulb measured 5 1/2 in diameter. It is a must for any crinum collector and has only been distributed among other collectors. Lorraine Clark is marginally fertile and can produce some seeds and has been used to create a few hybrids. We have been growing this since 2004 and are just now introducing it for sale on for the first time in 2014. We grow over 1000 different crinum, including about 350 of our own hybrids. BACKGROUND: Lorraine Clark is a hybrid of Ellen Bosanquet (seed parent) and crinum scabrum (pollen parent). Barry Clark was the hybridizer. For those that might be interested, here is his account of how he produced and named thi

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