Hippeastrum X johnsonii in New Orleans

Mark Wilcox marque219@verizon.net
Sun, 31 Jul 2005 05:23:24 PDT
Hi Cynthia,

Having looked at the image on Plant Delights, I can tell you that the ones I saw were simply red, no white in them at all.  I'll try to get pictures of both the plain red and the broad stripe plants up on the wiki soon.

Mark

>Mark: I believe the variation that had almost completely red petals was probably "Amaryllis" or Hippeastrum Ackermanii, another old favorite hybrid.  They are also found in Central Texas.  There's a nice image of it on the Plant Delights website, where Tony says they are a hybrid between H. aulicum and H. x johnsonii.  It's hard to say anything definitive about the variant with broader stripes without a picture.


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