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Hippeastrum puniceum is a bulbous perennial native to tropical regions of South America, although it has become naturalized elsewhere. [1] Common names include Barbados lily, Easter lily, cacao lily, cocoa lily and amaryllis lily, [citation needed] although it is neither a lily nor a species of Amaryllis.
Hippeastrum striatum, the striped Barbados lily, a flowering perennial herbaceous bulbous plant, in the family Amaryllidaceae, native to the southern and eastern regions of Brazil. [ 2 ] Description
How to care for amaryllis is a little different than other bulbs you may be familiar with, but they are about as easygoing and low maintenance as a plant can be and bloom reliably. Their ...
Amaryllis (/ ˌ æ m ə ˈ r ɪ l ɪ s /) [1] is the only genus in the subtribe Amaryllidinae (tribe Amaryllideae).It is a small genus of flowering bulbs, with two species.The better known of the two, Amaryllis belladonna, is a native of the Western Cape region of South Africa, particularly the rocky southwest area between the Olifants River Valley and Knysna.
How to Care for an Amaryllis If your bulb came in a kit, add soil to the bottom of the pot, set the bulb on top, then fill in around the bulb. When you’re done, the upper half of the bulb should ...
Flower, leaves and bulb of Hippeastrum miniatum. Francisco Manuel Blanco, Flora de Filipinas 1880–1883 Hippeastrum bulb Detail of Hippeastrum flower. Hippeastrum (/ ˌ h ɪ p iː ˈ æ s t r ə m /) [17] is a genus of 116 species [18], and over 600 hybrids and cultivars, of perennial, herbaceous and bulbous plants, native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas, from Mexico south ...
S. formosissima was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753 as Amaryllis formosissima and transferred to Sprekelia by William Herbert in 1821. [ 11 ] There are crosses between the genera Hippeastrum and Sprekelia , referred to as "x Hippeastrelia ", [ 12 ] as well as at least one cross between the three genera Hippeastrum , Sprekelia , and ...
Linnaeus described the type genus Amaryllis, from which the family derives its name, in his Species Plantarum in 1753, [8] with nine species, in the Hexandria monogynia (i.e. six stamens and one pistil) [9] containing 51 genera in total [10] in his sexual classification scheme. The name Amaryllis had been applied to a number of plants over the ...