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Amaryllis of tropical America often cultivated as a houseplant for its showy white to red flowers
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hippeastrum
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Hippeastrum is a genus of about 90 species and over 600 hybrids and cultivars of perennial herbaceous bulbous plants. They generally have large fleshy bulbs and tall broad leaves, generally evergreen, and large red or purple flowers. Hippeastrum is a genus ...
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n. amaryllis of tropical America often cultivated as a houseplant for its showy white to red flowers [syn: Hippeastrum puniceum ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
hippeastrum \hippeastrum\ n. An amaryllis of tropical America ( Hippeastrum puniceum ) often cultivated as a houseplant for its showy white to red flowers. Syn: Hippeastrum puniceum .
Usage examples of hippeastrum.
This case of the Crinum leads me to refer to a most singular fact, namely, that there are individual plants, as with certain species of Lobelia, and with all the species of the genus Hippeastrum, which can be far more easily fertilised by the pollen of another and distinct species, than by their own pollen.
This result has, also, been confirmed by other observers in the case of Hippeastrum with its sub-genera, and in the case of some other genera, as Lobelia, Passiflora and Verbascum.
This case of the Crinum leads me to refer to a most singular fact, namely, that there are individual plants, as with certain species of Lobelia, and with all the species of the genus Hippeastrum, which can be far more easily fertilised by the pollen of another and distinct species, than by their own pollen.