Hippeastrum
Subtitle: The Gardener's Amaryllis (Royal Horticultural Society/Timber Press Plant Collectors Guides Series)
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Published: March 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780881926392
Subjects: Gardening: plants; Gardening / Horticulture; Gardening; Gardening/Plants; Flowers - Bulbs; AMARYLLIS; GARDENING AND HORTICULTURE; Gardening / Flowers / Bulbs; Gardening / General; Amaryllis (Genus); Hippeastrum
First sentence: The true identities of the South African Amaryllis belladonna Linnaeus and South American Hippeastrum Herbert have attracted the attention of eminent European and North American botanists and taxonomists since their introduction into European cultivation in the mid 18th century.