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: This beautiful bulb has a dark rose-pink flower with a white throat. It is fragrant and offsets slower than Ellen Bosanquet. The leaves are darker and less coarse and pointed and arch more gracefully. It is much more stately in form than Ellen. It blooms in May and continues all summer, where Ellen blooms for about a month. Scapes can grow 4+ feet with up to 20 flowers. Its foliage is more like C. powellii. It will form large, beautiful clumps if left undisturbed for many years. It is one of the taller of the over 1000 crinum that we grow. BACKGROUND: An improved form of Ellen Bosanquet. Thad Howard in his book, Bulbs for Warm Climates, says Cecil Houdyshel x Ellen Bosanquet and that is in agreement with Dr. Traub's own notes. It was hybridized by Dr. Hamilton Paul Traub. Dr. Traub never married and named the bulb after his mother, Elizabeth Graf Traub. His name was Paul Traub but he changed it to Hamilton Paul Traub. GROWING CONDITIONS: This is a semi-hardy and easy to grow bulb requiring no special care. It tolerates a wide range of soils and cool temperatures, at least to zone 8. They should do best planted in the ground in full sun or partial shade, but they will also make excellent container plants. They can survive nicely out of the ground for very extended periods if allowed to dry. DESCRIPTION OF ITEM FOR BID: You are bidding on a medium-size bulb at least 2 years old and about 1 1/2 in diameter that should bloom for you within 2 years. Crinum do not like to be moved, so it can take a year just to settle in. Bulbs will be freshly dug, shipped bare root and with leaves March-November. In the winter months the leaves may be absent.WE SIZE OUR BULBS APPROXIMATELY BY AGE AS FOLLOWS: A few varieties can take 6 years or more to bloom.Jumbo bulb - has bloomed at least 2 years, close to the maximum size for that particular plant (6+ years old)Large bulb - should bloom this year or next (3+ years

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