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: False or true, False White Queen is still one of the prettiest crinum in the garden. It is a medium to large-size crinum with a large, wide open, pure white flower. It forms seeds and we have used it both as a seed parent and as a pollen parent in our hybridization program. The flowers are large and have petal tips that recurve back over 360 degrees giving them a fancy, regal appearance. Flowers have a tiny yellow-green eye and white stamens and the pollen sacs turn black on the second day. The scapes are strong and it forms regular offset bulbs once the bulbs mature. We have observed as many as 20 flowers that open sequentially on 38 tall scapes. Mature bulbs grow to about 5 in diameter and offset at a modest pace. It is a reliable bloomer from late February - June here in zone 9, northeast Florida. This is being offered by us on for the first time in 2014.
Currently we grow over 1000 varieties of crinum and have one of the largest collections in the world including about 350 of our own hybrids. BACKGROUND:False White Queen has become somewhat of a controversy. It was originally hybridized by Luther Burbank, but the exact cross is unknown. The experts are quite certain it is a hybrid of crinum macowanii and crinum xpowellii alba (white). xPowellii alba is a cross of bulbispermum (which gives it good cold hardiness) and moorei alba (white). Because it involves some people that are still alive, we won't go into the controversy other than to say that this bulb, after being lost for many decades, was discovered in a garden in Fresno, CA and reliably traced back to its origin, the nursery of the famous Luther Burbank. We grow the true White Queen and the false White Queen and can't really tell the difference. The person that discovered the bulb insists that this bulb is a recreation (a somewhat similar cross given the name of White Queen) and not the real deal . Let's just say the jury is still out on t

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