Crinum bulbispermum Chessmaster Helleborus This is a tidiness issue

This is a tidiness issue and not a health of the plant issue

The hard rhizome grows along the ground and the leaves arise singly from it

The distinguishing spore pattern only extends from leaf tip down to the center of the leaf back

Unfortunately

although it can be divided after growing well for 3-5 years

Crinum bulbispermum Chessmaster Helleborus This is a tidiness issueCrinum 'Chessmaster' is a very nice Nestor White selection of the non offsetting South African Crinum bulbispermum. The glaucous blue leaves are foil to the 2' tall stalks, topped with clusters of widely open flowers white on the inside and pink with red keels on the outside.