Rama dama Amaryllis

[DoomsDave]

This just popped up. Don't remember planting it.

Glad I didn't kill it in dormancy.

Feast thine eyes!

[Tropicgardener]

So very different to the common old Amaryllis we get around here, the plant looks like a Crinum.

[Cikas]

I agree, Crinium.

[strandoo]

Tropicgardener, is this what you call your common amaryllis? Up here this is a prolific multiplier , the new bulbs will eventually push the old ones up out of the ground if not lifted and split up. I get somewhat confused about the difference between amaryllis and hippeastrums. These common amaryllis flower profusely during our hot and humid build up to the wet season but not during the cooler dry season months. I grow other southern type hippies but they need to be lifted and put in the fridge for about six weeks to induce them to flower, although the success of this is fairly scratchy.

 

This hippy with a white striation down the centre of the leaf grows really well up here and flowers all year both wet and dry seasons .We propagate heaps of these for the garden by scaling, they will last a couple of days as a cut flower. I believe it may be from Brazil?

 

 

This is the only southern type hippy that will flower with out intervention, it is bulblet offspring from scaling, possibly this has caused something of an acclimatization? I don't know.

Regards John K.