Zephyranthes labufarosea

Published Monday, August 13, 2007 by Chris | E-mail this post

One of our favorite rain lilies is just beginning to open up. It is a pink one by the name of Zephyrantes labufarosea. Ours seem to bloom late summer into mid fall, but other growers have had success from the beginning of the summer all the way into the fall. There are also different spellings involved. We have chosen the one through which we originally received and identified the bulb.

It is sometimes listed as Zephyranthes sp. 'Labuffarosa' or Z. 'Labuffarosea'. I have seen it growing in gardens north of Washington DC and in gardens as far south as Houston. It was originally discovered on a plant expedition to Mexico by John Fairey and Carl Schoenfeld, on the sides of a mountain. Thad Howard in "Bulbs for Warm Climates" and Scott Ogden in "Garden Bulbs for the South" both give a unique one sentence account of the bulbs naming.