Overview
Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Powder Puff, Royal Paint Brush, White Blood Lily
Description
Family Amaryllidaceae
Herbs perennial
, rarely shrubby or treelike, often with bulbs, corms, rhizomes, or tubers. Leaves basal or cauline, often narrow, margin
entire or spiny
. Inflorescence a terminal
spike, umbel, raceme
, panicle, or flowers solitary. Flowers bisexual
, actinomorphic
or zygomorphic, usually subtended by 1 to several spathaceous
involucres. Perianth segments 6, in 2 whorls, free
or connate
to form a short tube
, with or without a corona
. Stamens 6, inserted
at perianth throat or at base
of segments; filaments
sometimes basally connate; anther
dorsifixed
or basifixed
, mostly introrse
. Ovary inferior, 3-loculed; ovules few to many per locule; placentation axile
. Style slender; stigma capitate or 3-lobed. Fruit a capsule, usually loculicidal, sometimes dehiscing irregularly, rarely a berry. Seeds with endosperm.
More than 100 genera and 1200 species: tropical
, subtropical
, and temperate regions
worldwide; ten genera and 34 species (14 endemic, four introduced
) in China.[1]
Physical Description
Habit: Evergreen .
Flowers: Bloom Period: January, February, October, November, December. • Flower Color: cream, near white, pale yellow, tan, white
Size/Age/Growth
Size: 12-18" tall.
Biology
Growth
Culture: Space 3-6" apart.
Soil: Minimum pH: 6.1 • Maximum pH: 7.5
Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Light Shade.
Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 10a, 10b, 11. (map)
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Liliidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Lilianae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Asparagales
()
- Bromhead, 1838
- Family:
Amaryllidaceae
()
- Jaume Saint-Hilaire, 1805, nom. cons.
- Amaryllis Family
- Tribe:
Haemantheae
()
- Genus:
Haemanthus
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1753
- Specific epithet:
albiflos
- Jacq.
- Botanical name: - Haemanthus albiflos Jacq.
- Specific epithet:
albiflos
- Jacq.
- Genus:
Haemanthus
(
- Tribe:
Haemantheae
(
- Family:
Amaryllidaceae
(
- Order:
Asparagales
(
- Superorder:
Lilianae
(
- Subclass:
Liliidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author
: Jacq. Publication
: Pl. Rar. Hort. Schoenbr. 1:
31 1797
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 09-Jul-2004
Similar Species
Members of the genus Haemanthus
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 3 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
H. albiflos (Powder Puff) · H. coccineus (Blood Lily) · H. katherinae (Blood Lily)
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Further Reading
- Edwards, S. T. The Botanical register: consisting of coloured figures of. .. 12 1826 London: Printed for James Ridgway, 1815-1828. url , .
- Gardening for beginners; a handbook to the garden, by E.T. Cook. [London]"Country Life" [etc., 1914] url , .
- Hand-list of tender momocotyledons, excluding Orchideae, cultivated in the Royal Gardens, Kew. London, Printed for H. M. S. O., by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1897. url p. 143.
- Hand-list of tender monocotyledons, excluding Orchideae, cultivated in the Royal Gardens, Kew. 1897. LondonPrinted for H.M. Stationery Off. by Eyre and Spottiswoode1897 url p. 143.
- International catalogue of scientific literature. LondonPublished for the International Council by the Royal Society of London1901-1920 url p. 472.
- On the elaioplasts in mono- and dicotyledonous plants. --On special cellular bodies which form Anthocyanine. --On a special cellular body found in two orchids. Pavia, 1914 url , .
- South African journal of science. [Marshalltown, Transvaal: South African Association for the Advancement of Science, url p. 156.
- Standardized plant names; a catalogue of approved scientific and common names of plants in American commerce. Salem, Mass., 1923. url p. 44.
- The Florists' exchange: a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. New York, N.Y.: [A.T. De la Mare Ptg. and Pub. Co., url p. 260.
- The Garden: an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. London: [s.n., url p. 156, p. 24.
- The Gardeners' chronicle: a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. London: [Gardeners Chronicle], 1874-1955. url p. 94.
- Qian Xiao-hu, Chen Sing-chi, Hsu Yin, Hu Zhi-bi, Huang Xiu-lan & Fan Quan-jin. 1985. Amaryllidaceae. In: Pei Chien & Ting Chih-tsun, eds., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 16(1): 1--42.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3490074
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-276772
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14986673
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:64682-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 64682-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 743234
Footnotes
- Zhanhe Ji & Alan W. Meerow "Amaryllidaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 264. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
