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Malcolm - This one here appears to be darker than Dingaan, without the smokiness of many of the grey purple and mauves but a tad squinny.. Dingaan has a much better shape and it would be wise to cross the one here with Dingaan. The clear dark ones usually (at least here) have a red central stripe but not so with this one. I have promised Exbury will get an offset should it ever decide to make one. Perhaps I should get pollen to them if they're interested.Mine is from seed of a hand-pollinated cross by Sir Peter Smithers. The cross is PS-9-7 ('David Lionel' x 25519a). 25519a = a sibling of 25519c = Pantaloon x Bagdad.johnw
'Dingaan' has quite a clear purple colour, slightly wider petals than John's hybrid; however, they flower heads on 'Dingaan' tend to be a little on the meagre side (6-8 flowers per stem, rather than the 14-per-head that was Sir Peter Smithers' ideal); I would post a picture if I weren't such a duff photographer...
Sir Peter used to worry about fertilizer, and especially nitrogen, causing release of an endogenous virus in the broad-leaf Nerine varieties. Have you ever seen anything like that?Jim