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When the leaves die back, stop fertilizing until you bring the plant out of dormancy. Related: The 10 Best Fertilizers for Indoor Plants of 2024 to Help Your Greenery Thrive Post-Bloom Care and ...
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.
Hippeastrum reticulatum blooms in late summer to autumn, with an active growing season of autumn to early winter, and requires a semi-dormant period of 4–6 weeks during late winter and early spring. The species is unusual amongst Hippeastrum, in being self-fertile. [5] [6]
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 ...
Amaryllis belladonna, [2] the Jersey lily, [3] belladonna-lily, naked-lady-lily, [4] or March lily, [5] is a plant species native to Cape Province in South Africa but widely cultivated as an ornamental.
Here the sickle-shaped leaves curve northward. When grown in the northern hemisphere, the leaves curve southward. [ 9 ] It is one of the largest (around 1.5 meters (five feet) high by up to one foot (30 centimeters) thick near the base) [ 10 ] and also rarest members of the subfamily Amaryllidoideae (family Amaryllidaceae ).
When the flowers of Lycoris bloom, their leaves would have fallen; when their leaves grow, the flowers would have wilted. This habit gave rise to various legends. A famous one is the legend of two elves: Mañju (曼珠; Mànzhū), who guarded the flower, and Saka (沙華; 沙华; Shāhuá), who guarded the leaves.
Zephyranthes / ˌ z ɛ f ɪ ˈ r æ n θ iː z / [3] is a genus of temperate and tropical bulbous plants in the Amaryllis family, subfamily Amaryllidoideae, [4] native to the Americas and widely cultivated as ornamentals.