Nerine 'Bennett Poe'
14th December 2013
A late pink cultivar, flowering here for the first time.
A form of N. x versicolor that flowers for me once the main flush of N.sarniensis cultivars
has finished. Sir Peter Smithers said it was raised by Bennet-Poe.
Tony Norris says:
"One of the last Nerines of the season. If water is withheld until late November flowers can be had for
Christmas and well into the new year. The 28 inch stem makes this one of the tallest and the 14 to 20 or so
bright cerise pink flowers which are most readily produced are outstanding.
Described by John Gallagher as 'Probably the best - of the late flowering cultivars - in cultivation at
the moment, completely eclipsing the well known 'Mansellii'.' It is a very vigorous and free flowering form
and the leaves appear with, or shortly before, the flowers."
(John T. Bennett-Poe, 1846 - 1926). An Irish horticulturalist from County Tipperary who cultivated florist's plants and orchids.)
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References:
N. R. Brown, 'Reproductive Biology of Nerine' PhD Thesis, University of Tasmania, 1999.
Tony Norris, Nerine Nurseries Catalogue, 1979-80.
plants.jstor.org (17.07.2022)