Amaryllis (the color pink flower)
This flower I took in the yard of the house and the name of this plant is Hippeastrum belonging to the genus of about 90 species and more than 600 hybrids and cultivars of perennial round herbs. They generally have large fleshy tubers and wide wide leaves, generally green, and large red or purple flowers. Hippeastrum in the Amaryllidaceae family (Amaryllidoideae subfamily, Hippeastreae tribe, and Hippeastrineae subtribe) The name Hippeastrum, given to him by William Herbert, means "Knight's-star-lily", although precisely what Herbert means by name is uncertain.
Over the years there has been confusion among botanists on behalf of the generic Amaryllis and Hippeastrum, one result being that the common name "amaryllis" is mainly used for cultivars of this genus, often sold as indoor flower bulbs especially at Christmas in the northern hemisphere . Instead the generic name of Amaryllis applies to tubers from South Africa, usually grown outdoors. This genus is native to the tropical and subtropical regions of America from northern Argentina to the Mexican and Caribbean.
Reproduction is generally by allogamy (cross-pollination) and Hippeastrum can be propagated by seeds or offset bulbils (bulblets), although commercial ventures use in vitro techniques, or split from spheres into sections. This genus has been raised and cultivated since the early nineteenth century to produce large flowers of colorful. In temperate climates this can be placed outside in summer, and after a period of dormancy, induced to rebloom inside in winter.
Most Hippeastrum bulbs are tunic (dry protective outer layer and scales in concentric fleshy or leaf base). The bulbs are generally between 5-12 cm (2 "-5") in diameter and produce 2-7 perennial green leaves or deciduous leaves of 30-90 cm (12 "-36") and 2.5-5 cm (1 " -2 ") width. The leaves are hysteranthous (growing after flowering), sessile, rarely persistent and subpetiolate. The flowers are arranged in the umbelliform inflorescence of pauciflor or pluriflor (2-14 flowers), supported on a 20-75 cm (12 "-30") hollow scoop (flower scoop) and 2.5-5 cm (1 "-2 ") in diameter with two free bracts forming a spathe bivalved with a free leaflet at its base.
Depending on the species, there are two to fifteen prominent large flowers, which are more or less zygomophic and hermaphrodite. Each flower is 13-20 cm (5 "-8"), and the original species are usually purple or red. They are funnelform (funnel-shaped) and declinate (curved down and then up on the tip) in shape. The perianth has six brightly colored tepals (three outer sepals and three inner petals) that may be similar in appearance or very different. The perianth segment is subequal or unequal. Tapal is united at the base to form a short tube, usually with an imperfect scaly paraperigonium with a fimbriae or a goose bump present in the throat. The andresium consists of six stamens with filiform (filament like threads), which are fasciculate (in close bundle) and declinate or ascendent.
In gynaecium, the ovaries are lower and trilocular with a swollen locus. The force is the filiform, and the Trifid stigma. The fruit forms trivalve capsules containing dry, flat, winged or discontinuous sloping seeds, almost never bombastic, and round (spherical) or subglobose, with chocolate or black phytomelanous testa. Although the 1987 decision solved the scientific name question of the genus, the common name "amaryllis" continues to be used. Bulbs are sold as amaryllis and are described ready to bloom for the holiday belonging to the genus Hippeastrum.
"Amaryllis" is also used on behalf of some societies devoted to the genus Hippeastrum. Separate common names are used to describe the genus Amaryllis, eg "Naked Lady". The complicated genus taxonomy. The first problem is whether the name should be more appropriate to Amaryllis L. In 1753 Carl Linnaeus invented the name Amaryllis belladonna, a species of genus Amaryllis, in the Species Plantarum along with eight other Amarilis species. Linnaeus previously worked at the Estate of George Clifford near Haarlem between 1735 and 1737 describing the plant that grew there in Hortus Cliffortianus in 1738. This is a work he calls in Species Plantarum. This is assumed as Cape Belladonna of South Africa, although it is not known for certain. Clifford Herbarium is now preserved at the Natural History Museum in London.