Nerine bowdenii
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Nerine bowdenii, W. Wats. Bulb variable in size, the largest bottle-shaped and 1½ in. diam. and 2 in. long, freely producing offsets: Lvs. ½-1 ft. long and 1 in. or less broad, glossy green, slightly channeled, obtuse: scape nearly cylindrical, 12-18 in. long, bearing a loose 6-12-fld. umbel 9 in. across, the trigonous pedicels 2 in. long; fls. large, rose-pink with keels darker; segms. 2-3 in. long and ½ in. wide, recurved and slightly wavy. Cape Colony. B.M. 8117. G.C. III. 36:365. Gn. 77, p. 570. F.S.R. 3:120.—As grown at Kew, the plants are practically leafless when in fl. Var. pallida, Hort. (N. Veitchii, Hort.), is pale in color (blush-white): fls. 2¼ in. across, with recurved segms. Gn. 75. p. 484. G.M. 54:742. G.C. III. 58:132.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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