Nerine 'Blanchfleur'
Archive entry 26.10.14
17th October 2010
A pure white selection of N.sarniensis.
I am not the only one to mistakenly spell the name 'Blanchefleur' on occasion, but 'Blanchfleur' is correct.
5th November 2013
White Nerine are different in the sense that the flowering time differs by a few weeks,
the height varies a little and the number of flowers in the head can vary. Some might say that the
individual flowers differ in their shape.
It is probably all true, but a white Nerine is a white Nerine. Every breeder
since Alexander the Great (why would you call anybody great unless they bred Nerine ?)
has named a white cultivar to satisfy their curiosity. I wonder how many have felt the need to
name any more?
If someone raises a plant with a flower the size of a nun's head then it deserves to be named
as long as it has a strong enough neck - nobody needs another nodding nun!
(And if you were still wondering, I write this nonsense when I have spent and hour researching a cultivar
and found nothing of any significance. )
14th October 2014
This is an Exbury hybrid between N. 'Mrs H. J.Elwes' and N. 'Caryatid' distributed
by Tony Norris at Nerine Nurseries. He says of it:
"This product of the Exbury cross No.84 (Mrs H. J. Elwes x Caryatid) first flowered with me in 1973.
The flower is purest white without any trace of pink.
The segments are wide and much crisped and twisted in the terminal third.
A very fine even head of 9 to 12 florets."
Writing on the Pacific Bulb Society website Hamish Sloan said:
"White, ... and what a white. Large flowers on a full head, long scape.
Where many sarniensis hybrids have ruffled edges to the petals, this hybrid has ruffles that go
across the outer half of the petal. I do not know if this is general or just my clone.
I find it a distinguishing feature compared to other whites."
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References:
N. R. Brown, 'Reproductive Biology of Nerine' PhD Thesis, University of Tasmania, 1999.
Exbury Nerine, www.nerines.com (02.07.22)
Tony Norris, Nerine Nurseries Catalogue, 1979-80.
Dr. John David, pers.comm.
www.nerine.info
pacificbulbsociety.org (26.01.2004)