Re: ID wanted on Agapanthus-like Hawaiian plant
This would have been my guess also. C. asiaticum or a hybrid...
>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
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>> 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
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>> 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.
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>> 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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