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Click here to get your FREE Seed!!! Offer ends March 2012 Click here to get your FREE seedA genus of the Amaryllidaceae widespread in the New World. Many are inhabitants of seasonally dry regions which are subject to sudden heavy rains in the late summer and early autumn at which time the buds which are held almost fully developed just below the soil surface suddenly complete [...] Zephyranthes Basic culture They are best grown in a sunny spot in a loose, friable, very free draining soil. A sandy loam is ideal. This should be neutral to slightly limey. Zephyranthes atamasco is reputed to like the soil to be just on the acid side [...] A. Flower erect, radially symmetrical. Stamens in two sizes: 3 short and 3 long or 6 stamens same size. Zephyranthes (2n=24 48) AA. Flower zygomorphic. Stamens in four different lengths. B. Spathe with 1 rarely 2-3 flowers with a single bifid bract that cover the flower´s [...] 53. Zephyranthes Herbert, Appendix. 36. 1821. name conserved.
Rain-lily, fairy-lily, zephyr-lily [Greek Zephyros, west wind, and anthos, flower]
Raymond O. Flagg, Gerald L. Smith & Walter S. Flory†
Atamosco Adanson 1763, name rejected; Cooperia Herbert
Herbs, perennial, scapose, from bulbs. Bulbs black or brown, tunicate, ovoid or globose, sometimes [...] |
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