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Its leaves are lanceolate, margin undulate, apically acuminate. They feature 1 sharp point and are dark green, growing up to 1 m long. Their width is 7–12 cm or wider and they number 20-30. The inflorescence is an umbel with 10-24 flowers, six petaloid tepals, and aromatic. The flower stem is erect, as long as the leaf, and solid.
Stem: The underground portion is variously described as a thick underground stem, i. e., a rhizome or tuber. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] While the literature is confusing as to the exact terminology, generally the Zantedeschia aethiopica - Zantedeschia odorata group (Group I) is considered to have rhizomes and the remaining species tubers. [ 5 ]
In all species the stem is normally bent 150-180° at the tip so that the nose of the flower faces downwards. Cyclamen hederifolium 'Stargazer' is an exception: its nose faces upwards. Flowers have 5 petals , bent outwards or up, sometimes twisted, and connected at the base into a cup, and five sepals behind the cup.
It has a hairy stem, simple or branched near the base, where the leaves are essentially located towards the bottom of the plant. The pinwheel, daisy-like inflorescences are 4–6.5 cm in diameter, [ 9 ] vividly colored with red, orange and yellow and is surrounded by 10 to 20 ray florets up to 2 cm; [ 9 ] the ligule has three lobes.
Sanguinaria canadensis is sometimes known as Canada puccoon, [5] bloodwort, redroot, red puccoon, and black paste. [4] Plants are variable in leaf and flower shape, and have been separated as a different subspecies due to these variable shapes, indicating a highly variable species.
One of the earliest appearances of the rosette in ancient art is in early fourth millennium BC Egypt. [2] Another early Mediterranean occurrence of the rosette design derives from Minoan Crete; Among other places, the design appears on the Phaistos Disc, recovered from the eponymous archaeological site in southern Crete.
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 about 90 species, and over 600 hybrids and cultivars, of perennial, herbaceous and bulbous plants, native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas, from Mexico south ...