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Zephyranthes macrosiphon |
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Tender bulb from Mexico, with clear pink, six-petaled flowers. I like all rain lilies, but this one is especially cheerful with its wide-open petals and contrasting yellow stamens. Back in Pennsylvania, I grew these from seed once, but never got them to bloom. Another attempt, in Houston, was more successful: flowers appeared in late May of their third year, after some thunderstorms swung through. They bloomed one or two more years in our rock garden, until that location became too shady. Since then, I've established a few more clumps from seed - some collected from our own plants, and also some for variety 'Hidalgo' from an exchange. I'm not sure I can tell the difference between that one and the plain species.
As you can see from most of the photos on this page, pink rain lily can be sparse in its flowering habit, often having just one or two bulbs out of a clump blooming at a time. But when they're really pushed by a nice thunderstorm after a dry period, and all the stars align, it can put on a magnificent show – the clump in the photo above was just one of several in glorious bloom for a few precious days in late May, celebrating an abundance of water from the sky.
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| | 'Hidalgo' |
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| | Flowers in June, held on bare stems |
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| | The lead-in to a fully blooming cluster: a few early ones open, surrounded by promising fuchsia buds |
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In our garden, this plant grows in the following areas: Houston rock garden, back fence border, waterfall pondside, north foundation border, houston front yard A page about all the rain lilies in our garden About my plant portraits
PlantLinks to other web pages about Zephyranthes macrosiphon
- Seed from HPS/MAG '13/'14 exchange. Baggy 70F (76%G, 6-22d). Also Zephyranthes/habranthus mix from same source, baggy 70F (high G, 6-20d)
- Seed from NARGS '17/'18 exchange. Baggy 70F (27%G, 10-16d)
- Seed from '20 garden. Baggy 70F (75%G, 13-28d)
- Same seed as above. Baggy 70F (87%G, 11-27d)
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June 03, 2025
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