Re: ID wanted on Agapanthus-like Hawaiian plant
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- Subject: Re: ID wanted on Agapanthus-like Hawaiian plant
- From: L* C*
- Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 09:54:45 -0700
Well, it's kind of a stab in the dark but I'm wondering if it's a form of
Crinum? My purple-leafed Crinum behaves in a similar way (grows from large
bulb, produces bulbils)....
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Laura Cooper
> From: Rick Walker <walker@cutter.labs.agilent.com>
> Reply-To: walker@cutter.labs.agilent.com
> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 15:09:11 -0700
> To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: ID wanted on Agapanthus-like Hawaiian plant
>
>
> On a trip to Kauai Hawaii, I noticed a plant that looks like Agapanthus
> on steroids. The flower occurs in both purple and white forms like
> Agapanthus and with the same radial floral structure. The foliage of
> the purple flowered form was suffused throughout with a maroon cast
> contrasted with the green leaves of the white flowered form.
>
> The pollenated flowers produced aerial bulbs (like some multiplying
> garlics) about 1" in diameter instead of seedpods. The mature plant
> seems to grow from a bulb rather than the tangle of fleshy roots of
> Agapanthus.
>
> The plant was about 1.5 to 2x the size of an Agapanthus making for a
> very dramatic display.
>
> Anyone that knows this plant? I'm surprised it isn't common stateside
> as it was quite nice and seemed to be used nearly everywhere in Kauai
> streetside plantings.
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Rick Walker
>
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