I have a pic of an old Amaryllis that I can not find the name for. One man told me it is called Milk and Wine. It's foliage is wide long dark green leaves that stay all season and it is bigger unlike the regular perennial amaryllis. The picture I have is for a white with red stripe flower but I also have a solid white amaryllis too just like it. Can anyone help me find their original names or share any info they may have on these amaryllis?

Sounds like the blooms of what is commonly known in southern N. America as ‘Milk and Wine Lilies’. The bulbs are closely related to the Amaryllis family, but are classified separately as Crinum. The first ‘milk and wine’ was Crinum x herbertii, produced from a cross of two wildings in 1819. Further crosses ensued. Several wineeaked varieties came out of Europe in the 1800’s, varying in different degrees of the wine streaks. A favorite passalong among early Southern gardeners is a heavily tinted variety named ‘Carroll Abbott’, which was developed in England and brought over here in the 19th century. Durable wine-stained crinums can still be found growing in abandonment, having survived long gone gardeners and their farmhouses. I have a tough heirloom one that came from rural East Texas. It appears to be the 'Goweni', named after the Brit who bred it in the early 1800's.

Two solid white Crinums are often called ‘Swamp Lilies’ in the Amer South. The nickname loosely refers to either the North American native Crium americanum or a similar-looking South American C. erubescens. The NA one needs a monsoon season or bog conditions to bloom, while the SA one is happy in average garden conditions - where it can multiply more easily than the gardener may want it to. There are other species criums from other continents as well.

I am wondering if your pic is a vintage print or photo?

Thanks Mon, for that nice email. Was glad to hear the info was so appreciated.