The Ancient Crinum Lily Inhabiting The Island Of St. Simon, And Sea Island, Ga.

William Bartram, a notable, early American botanist, extensively explored the St. Simons Island in Georgia, which vividly depicts the landscapes, animals and plants in the area, along with his personal encounters with the islanders, and in many cases, their generous offers food, shelter and conversation and the hospitality of 1774.Near March of Fort Frederica, beautifully described by Bartram, as near a forest "venerable oak, under whose branches spread open that leads to the old headquarters (HQ) by Oglethorpe, but now near the property of Capt. Raimond Demere Avenue "(the ancestor of many descendants still living in Georgia Islands). After leaving this town he went 5 miles south of St. Simons, where "living the breeze perfumed by the breath of Crinum great fragrance, called by the people," white lily'the delicate structure of its spadix (flower ) for its broad green leaves and the texture and whiteness of its flowers at once charmed me ". In the book of William Bartrams, Travel, had discovered the Crinum asiaticum he called" Superbum Lilium "and wrote that it represented the pride and vanity, a puzzling statement. Crinum This population has multiplied after two centuries and is cultivated on a large scale in St. Simons Island, near the Cloister Hotel at Sea Island, the famous five-star resorts, where all the presidents of United States Calvin Coolidge and many kings, queens and heads of state have visited and holidays. Giant of these groups lilies 6 feet tall can be seen publicly in the old slave cabins at the edge of the airport of San Today Simon. The lily, Crinum asiaticum, produces giant clusters of fragrant white flowers on sturdy stems up to six feet high, and the plant can bloom any month of the year, but the most prolific in the spring and summer. After the blooming of the flowers can produce giant green seeds, the size of a room that can be planted in the upper soil immediately while green to produce small bulbs that eventually develop into large plants. These lilies are perennial in zones 8-11, but usually re-sprout from the bulbs after killing freezes that are often experienced in the area 7.These Crinum plants into a small tree like umbrellas in Hawaii, with trunks up to 8 feet high topped by a rosette of leaves 6 inches wide spectacular perched on the upper trunk. In the U.S. the lilies rarely exceed 6 m in height, however, the mother of Crinum asiaticum can be almost as big as a large leg. When these stems are cut and replanted in the field of root easily and fast development to form another bulb at the base of roots about the diameter of fingers that extend from the bulb, like spokes of a bicycle wheel. A large Crinum bulbs expire small displacement that can be removed from the mother bulb to increase the number on a plantation. Occasionally, the bulb is divided into two large plants of equal size. The Crinum is very easy to transplant in all soil and rarely show any dramatic impact or growth retardation after replanting.Some modern botanists feel that although William Bartram's original name Superbum 'Lilium' is not acceptable to substitute Crinum asiaticum, that the name, Crinum asiaticum may not be acceptable, either because the habitat and the colonization of the lily is firmly couples colonies along the east coast of the States United in March 1774, when Bartram discovered and described as always with a pure and naturalized. It seems impossible that Crinum asiaticum could have migrated to the east coast of the United States, if not from seed, which understandably can float in the salt water and germinate later, after being washed ashore. This remote possibility of seed floating in the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean to the east coast does not seem likely, since seed could only migrate across the boundaries of southern Brazil and Argentina at the bottom of South America - against the transmission of strong ocean currents and cold water to the seed did not survive exposure to freezing temperatures through the Drake Passage near Cape Horn, Argentina.There is one of the first botanical description of the historical Crinum americanum, a lily that is reported to be native to eastern United States, however, William Bartram Crinum not match the description of "large" leaves, since Crinum americanum has very narrow leaves and Crinum asiaticum has very "broad" leaves. Moreover,