Amaryllis and Other Geophytes

Culture

Luyten: Hot Water Treatment for Amaryllis (1945)

Schulz: Hardgrove Shock Treatment for Amaryllis (1954)

Robert Sweet: Raising Amaryllis (1839)

Lindsted: Wintering Amaryllis in Northern Gardens (1961)

Doane: An Amaryllis Story (1902)

Spencer: Treatment of Amaryllis for autumn bloom (1846)

Species

Gardner: Vegetation of Diamond & Gold districts, Minas Geraes, Brazil (1848)

Amaryllis ambigua Sweet

Worsley: Hippeastrum barbatum (1928)

Amaryllis rutila

Amaryllis crocata

Unknown - possibly solandriflorum

Baldwin & Speese: Hippeastrum solandriflorum chromosomes (1947)

Hippeastrum solandriflorum

Hippeastrum arechavaletae (1928)

Hippeastrum Leopoldi (1870)

Bolivian Amaryllis species (1992)

Ker: A Review of the Genus Amaryllis (1817)

Steudel: Amaryllis species and synonyms (1821)

Sessé & Mociño: Amaryllis species in Mexico (1887)

Lindley: Amaryllis solandraeflora & vittata (1821)

Amaryllis vittata

Curtis: Amaryllis reginae (1799)

Worsley: The Genus Hippeastrum (1896)

Baker: Hippeastrum andreanum (1880)

Lindley: Double Amaryllis (1825)

Nehrling: The Hippeastrums—Species and Varieties (1897)

Amaryllis belladonna var. haywardii (1949)

Traub: Key to the Amaryllis species and subgenera (1958)

Peruvian Stamp: Amaryllis ferreyrae

Stout: The synflorescence of Amaryllis hybrids (1944)

Salisbury: Amaryllideae (1866)

History

The Red Lily Amaryllis Belladonna L.

Hibberd: Lecture on the Amaryllis (1883)

Breeding

Clint: Sprekelia breeding (1962)

O'Brien: Hippeastrum 'Hindenley' (1903)

Amaryllis 'Symonii' (1859)

Amaryllis 'Acramanii'

Amaryllis 'Acramanii Pulcherimma'

Amaryllis 'Beauty of Reigate' (1873)

Amaryllis 'Unique' (1862)

Amaryllis 'Chelsoni' (1871)

Bonavia: The Amaryllis (1884)

Bonavia: Hybrid Amaryllis (1884)

Douglas: Raising New Varieties of Amaryllis (1888)

Douglas: Hippeastrums (1890)

Veitch: Hippeastrums (1890)

Bonavia: Something About Hippeastrums (1904)

Amaryllis x carnarvonia (= Vittata x Johnsoni)

Gowen: On the Production of a Hybrid Amaryllis (1821)

Gowen: Description of Amaryllis Psittacina-Johnsoni (1823)

Gowen: Hybrid Amaryllis, between vittata and Regina-vittata (1823)

Lindley (Trans Roy Hort Soc, 1923) Amaryllis regina-vittata

Anonymous: Amaryllis vittata rubra (1854)

George Washington Carver & Amaryllis

Hippeastrum reticulatum & stylosum (1896, 1936)

Douglas, Miles, Bonavia: Hippeastrum Hybrids (1906)

Beaton: On Amaryllids (1850)

Beaton: The Genus Hippeastrum (1862)

Anderson: Amaryllis Varieties (1856)

Glover: Australian Hipp Hybrids (1965)

Bradley: Hybridizing in Australia (1906)

Amaryllis Marmorata

Amaryllis Smaragdina

Hannibal: Notes on Amaryllis (Hippeastrum) (1946)

My first seedling: Scarlet Baby x antique orange

Durrett's reblooming amaryllises (1881)

Childs' "Everblooming Amaryllis" (1923)

Diener: Giant and Reblooming Amaryllis (1937)

Bigeneric hybrids

Hippeastrum x Clivia ?

Worsley: Hippeastrum x Crinum? (1906)

Pradham: Amaryllis [Hippeastrum] x Sprekelia (1969)

Burbank: Amaryllis [Hippeastrum] x Sprekelia (1914)

Chapman: Vallota x Hippeastrum (1907)

Cage: Sprekelia x Habranthus (1969, 1972)

Schulz: Amaryllis x Zephyranthes (1954)

Hippeastrum x Lycoris? - Hippecoris Garfieldii (1936)

Loddiges Botanical Cabinet - Amaryllis pictures

Cape Belladonna and Hybrids

Worsley: A. blanda, pseudo-blanda and rubra major (1928)

Lindley: Amaryllis blanda

Amaryllis paradisicola

Amaryllis paradisicola description

Watson: Arbuckle's Amaryllis kewensis (1892)

Watson: Brunsdonna - Kew variety (1898)

Hannibal 'Rubra Bicolour' Matching Clifford Specimen

Worsley: Hybridization in Amarylleae (1901)

Worsley: Amaryllis Parkeri (1909)

Worsley: Amaryllis baptiste var alba (1932)

Worsley: The Brunsdonnas - Parkeri alba (1926)

Worsley: Amaryllis and bigeneric hybrids (1932)

Watson: Bigenerics (1893)

Watson: Vallota x Amaryllis (1900)

Beaton: Brunsvigia x Vallota hybrids (1850)

Vallota purpurea var. alba (1904)

Dickerson: Lycorillis (Lycoris x Belladonna)

Bidwill: Amaryllid Hybrids Down Under (1850)

Crinums

Herbert: Delayed fertility in Crinum

Rudbeck: Lilionarcissus zeilanicus latifolius (1701)

Rumpf: Tulipa Javana & Radix Toxicaria (1741)

Rottböll: Crinum biflorum, zeilanicum (1773)

Agapanthus

Pink Agapanthus

Arnot (1906, 1907) Hardy Agapanthus Mooreanus

Gladiolus

Van Fleet: Gladiolus Breeding (1902)

Bamford: Gladiolus Hybrids (1941)

Hottes: Garden Gladioli (1915)

Buell: Exotic Gladioli (1972)

Kunderd: Ruffled Gladioli (1908)

Watsonia descriptions (Australia)

Lilies

Griffiths: Lilium concolor x tenuifolium (1927)

Various authors: Lilium testaceum

Lycoris

Caldwell: Lycoris breeding; L. "sperryi" (1962)

Caldwell: Seeds on Lycoris squamigera (1979)

Beaton: Lycoris and other bulbs (1853)

Lycoris squamigera (1890)

Ogawa, et al.: Genome Differentiation in Lycoris Species (2005)

Lycoris pictures and links

Misc. Bigenerics

Burbank: Tigridias & Ferrarias (1914)

Orpet: Bigeneric Orchid Hybrids (1900)

Orpet: Bigeneric Orchid Hybrids (1901)

Urceocharis clibrani (Eucharis grandiflora x Urceolina aurea) (1891)

Urceocharis clibrani (Eucharis grandiflora x Urceolina aurea) (1906)

Misc. plants

Millington: Second bloom from Calla (1878)

Morse: Canna 'Mrs. Kate Gray' (1901, 1902)

Gloxinia and relatives

Weathers: Gesnera x Gloxinia (1895)

Sprenger: Hemerocallis Hybrids (1903)

Misc. Belladonnas

Ferrari: False Donna Bella

Ferrari: True Donna Bella

Another Belladonna - Sprekelia formosissima

Bradley: Bella Donna from Portugal (1728)

Buc'hoz: Belledame, du jardin de Trianon (1770)

Ehret's Crinum scabrum

Bauer Bros., Walter: Two Belladonnas (c. 1778, c. 1797)

Lamarck: La Belladonne jaune d'Afrique (1783)

Misc. pictures and descriptions

Hill: Sprekelia & Brunsvigia (1759)

Cornut: Sisyrinchium Indicum Amaryllis capensis L. (1635)

Hill: Amaryllis: Crimson Oriental, Yellow Autumnal, etc. (1757)

Hernandez: White Sea Narcissus & Yellow relative (1649)

Exotic Sea Daffodil


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