Here is an amaryllis white when it grew on my windowsill. The flower has long been gone, and the photos have remained.
Amaryllis is a popular indoor plant that occurs in the flower collections of many florists. It is in demand due to its beautiful flowers and simple care. To ensure that the amaryllis feels comfortable in an apartment, you do not need to try hard. This task will be on the strength and newcomers. If you want to plant a plant with beautiful flowers, but do not want to do it, choose an amaryllis, because it is best for this purpose.
Amaryllis (Latin Amaryllis) is the most common genus of the Amaryllis family (Latin Amaryllidaceae). Initially, botanists referred to it one kind of plant - Amaryllis belladonna (or Amaryllis belladonna). Over time, approaches to taxonomy have changed, and here included two more species of amaryllis - Amaryllis sarniensis and Amaryllis paradisicola.
Amaryllis belladonna originates from southern Africa. The researchers claim that the plant spread from the Olifants Valley from the Cape of South Africa. As for other species, here the geography is broader - South Africa, Japan, Australia, some islands of the English Channel - they can be considered the birthplace of plants.
For the first time the genus Amaryllis was described by the well-known Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus in 1753, who was engaged in systematics. He belongs to the merit of the name of this flower. Before his work there was an opinion that the amaryllis is only one of the subspecies of the lily. It was called a lionarcissus. Linnaeus realized that this is a separate plant, but introduced a significant error in taxonomy, including a number of varieties of hippeastrum in the genus Amaryllis. And until now many people confuse these plants.
The name of the plant is first encountered in Virgil's work. In his poems, you can meet the heroine - the shepherdess Amaryllis or Amaryllida. This name in Greek means "sparkling".
A sign of the beginning of flowering amaryllis is the growth of a long hollow tube in 40-60 cm - this is a flower stalk. The plant produces up to three peduncles. Next, leaves grow. In the wild, this occurs in late summer or early autumn. Each flower stem carries 2-12 flowers, depending on the variety. By the type of inflorescence - an umbrella.
Amaryllis growing in the wild can have flowers with white, pink and red petals of various shades. Breeders have artificially produced many hybrid varieties of yellow, purple, orange, green. A separate amaryllis flower is similar to a lily and a gramophone, making in diameter 10-12 centimeters. Despite the apparent sweetness of the plant, the amaryllis has poisonous parts. In the bulb found alkaloid lycorin. If it gets on the skin, it will show irritation. All planting operations with the plant should be carried out exclusively in rubber gloves, after which wash hands with soap. Keep the flower away from pets and children.
