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Crinum Lily, procerum 'Red Titan' medium-size bulb, NEW
DESCRIPTION
- Red Titan is the second tallest crinum in our collection with scapes reaching as high as 80". It is a form of what some people call "Queen Emma" or Queen Emma's Lily. This is not really its proper name and another completely different crinum named "Augustum" also goes by the same nickname.
- Red Titan (we named this bulb) is actually crinum asiaticum variation procerum, a hybrid commonly found throughout Southeast Asia. It is especially popular because of the burgundy/port wine, purple leaves. These bulbs can grow quite large with the necks of the bulbs approaching 5" in diameter
- We currently grow about 24 different forms of procerum and this is one of the best forms in our collection. It is not a heavy bloomer but it has a nice burgundy color on the emerging leaves. As the leaves age they become more green. The color is darker when the plant gets more sun. It will set occasional seed (especially if given some assistance), it forms regular offsets (new small bulbs around the base of the mother bulb), and it is easy to transplant.
- Other procerum vary in many ways with some being less cold tolerant, some don't transplant well with small offsets usually rotting, some have pistils of different lengths, some are essentially sterile and won't form seeds, some divide by vertical fission and don't produce small offsets where the large bulb just divides vertically into 2 or 3 new large bulbs
- Finally, most of the forms we grow don't have as much color. Our original bulb is now about 14 years old and is about 5" in diameter and has had as many as 26 flowers on scapes up to 80" tall. It takes a procerum about 6 years to reach a blooming size and it will continue to get larger for several years beyond that. We are introducing this plant for sale on eBay for the first time in 2014.
