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J. C. Harvey has up to 18, light-pink, trumpet-shaped blooms on thick, 40" tall scapes. Flowers are long lasting and open several at a time for a period of about 10 days. Multiple scapes will emerge from larger bulbs, extending the blooming period. Leaves are wavy, look like a corn plant, and can grow to 6' long. They differ from Ellen Bosanquet only in the fact that they are slightly more ribbed and the bottom of the leaf (keel) has a light green stripe up the length of the back of the leaf, a trait that they inherit from one of the parents, crinum zeylanicum. Not many other crinum have this distinctive trait. Mature bulbs are HUGE and can reach 6-7" in diameter and produce many offsets each year. Bulbs are semi-fertile (pollen) but do not produce seeds (ovary/seed sterile). They form tall, stately clumps in just several years. This is one of our favorite crinum, and we grow over 1000 varieties, including about 350 of our own hybrids, because of the mid-summer blooming season (June-August), and the flowers which tower over almost everything else with their beautiful shade of light pink. This is an essential plant that will be easy and fun to grow, giving you something to trade or share with your friends. It is time tested and probably the most common crinum, along with Ellen Bosanquet, grown in the US and along the Gulf Coast.