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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.
Amaryllis Renn Phillips was born into slavery in 1745 [Notes 1] on Barbados, during British colonial rule [2] where records indicate she was a mulatto. [3] [4] She was purchased by Robert Collymore in 1780, from Rebecca Phillips, a free coloured hotelier, [4] [5] along with her five mulatto children, [5] four of whom were Robert's children. [6]
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.
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The segment was so popular he expanded it and the following year launched Josh Earl vs. the Australian Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake Book, [17] a show that continued through to 2015. [18] In 2016 all 107 cakes were baked and sold for a Canberra charity to raise money to support women with post-and ante-natal depression.
The dormant or resting period may be in summer or winter, or may depend on rainfall, as in the tropics. [11] The different strategies enable bulbous plants to survive adverse conditions such as extremely hot and dry summers, very cold winters, or periods of drought.
Dormancy should not be confused with seed coat dormancy, external dormancy, or hardheadedness, which is caused by the presence of a hard seed covering or seed coat that prevents water and oxygen from reaching and activating the embryo. It is a physical barrier to germination, not a true form of dormancy (Quinliven, 1971; Quinliven and Nichol ...
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 ...