It’s that wonderful season again where the Nerine and friends come out. #bloomscrolling #flowers #amaryllids

🌱🦋 #Crinium x 'Improved Peach Blow' with a Convict caterpillar Xanthopastis regnatrix, I think. They favor Amaryllids as a food source.

Scadoxus multiflorus doing its thing! Bit late this year. #flowers #bloomscrolling #amaryllids

Poisonous Amaryllids and Iris are a good start as are anything aromatic or prickly. Coarse textures like Trachystemon or Mullein. Voles did take my Iris siberica.

“Like many other amaryllids, Clivia is considered poisonous because it contains small amounts of the alkaloid lycorine. However, large quantities must be ingested to cause symptoms of toxicity.”

hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/cli...

Plant alphabet day 12:

L is for Lycoris, a genus of amaryllids from east Asia. They are commonly called surprise lilies (not really lilies), because inflorescences suddenly appear in late summer/early autumn when the bulbs are leafless. Names in alt-text. 🌱

Update! Urceolina amazonica first flower is fully open. What a stunner! Fragrant but I’m not loving the smell tbh. #amaryllids #flowers #christmas

Update! #amaryllids #flowers #bulbs

Just noticed this! So exciting. First time Urceolina amazonica is flowering for me. #amaryllids #buds #flowers

🌱🪻As poisonous amaryllids these both escape predation by voles and such.🐿

Nerine season is still going… some N. undulata yet to open (probably N. undulata x N. bowdenii hybrid) #autumn #flowers #amaryllids

Sweet! I love the weird South/central American amaryllids, but I haven’t figured out how to get them to flower reliably. I think it has been close to 10 years since I saw a Phaedranassa flower.