Crinum hardyi is blooming today, in the rain. This plant, #2214, is the last survivor from a batch of seeds received from the 2007 International Bulb Society Seed Exchange. The seeds were from plants collected in the wild in Madagascar by Dr. David Lehmiller. His collection data were as follows:
Crinum hardyi Lehmiller, Herbertia 58: 113 (2003).
From Madagascar
Locality: 89 km south of Miandrivaz, adjacent to tributary of the Tsirbihina River
Collector and Number: D. J. Lehmiller 1948
Distribution: Madagascar
Institution(s): HT: TAMU
Note: Type collection, collected on 11 Nov 1996, flowered in cultivation in southeast Texas
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Jim