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Thursday, April 12, 2012

AMARYLLIS FLOWERS (A Flower Photo Blog)





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Tonight's Post features one of my favorite garden flowers blooming now at Kates Cabin Bird Sanctuary in Texas: The Amaryllis. Enjoy!



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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippeastrum

Hippeastrum


Hippeastrum /ˌhɪpiːˈæstrəm/[1] is a genus of about 90 species and 600+ hybrids and cultivars of bulbous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae,[2] native to tropical and subtropical regions of theAmericas from Argentina north to Mexico and the Caribbean. Some species are grown for their large showy flowers. For many years there was confusion amongst botanists over the generic names Amaryllis andHippeastrum, one result of which is that the common name "amaryllis" is mainly used for cultivars of this genus, which are widely used as indoor flowering bulbs. The generic name Amaryllis applies to bulbs fromSouth Africa, usually grown outdoors.

Hippeastrum
A Hippeastrum cultivar in flower
Scientific classificatione
Kingdom:Plantae
clade:Angiosperms
clade:Monocots
Order:Asparagales
Family:Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily:Amaryllidoideae
Genus:Hippeastrum
Herb.

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Flower characteristics


In general only a large bulb will put up more than one flower scape or spike but this depends on the cultivar itself; some smaller bulbs have two while some larger bulbs make only one. A bulb must produce at least four large, healthy leaves in the summer growing season before it can send up a scape the following year. Some bulbs put up two flower scapes at the same time; others may wait several weeks between blooms and sometimes the second scape will have only two or three flowers rather than the usual four. Dutch bulbs usually produce flowers first, then, after it has finished blooming, the plant will begin growing leaves. Bulbs from the South African growers usually put up a scape and leaves at the same time.

The flower colors include red, rose, pink, white, orange, yellow, and pale green with variations on these including different colored stripes and edges on the petals. Some flowers have uniform colors or patterns on all six petals while others have more pronounced colors on the upper petals than on the lower ones.
There are five types: 1) single flower; 2) double flower; 3) miniature; 4) cybister; and 5) trumpet. Cybisters have extremely thin petals and are often described as spider-like. Trumpets, as the name suggests, have flared, tube-shaped flowers. Single, double, and miniature bulbs are the ones typically sold by nurseries and other stores for the holidays in December and for Valentine's Day and Easter.
The miniature H. papilio (which is a true species, i.e., not a cultivar or hybrid but the actual plant that grows in the wild) has a unique color and pattern with broad rose-burgundy center stripes and striations of pale green on the upper petals and narrow stripes on the bottom three. It has been crossed with both cybister and single flower cultivars to produce hybrids with unusual striping

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Species

As of November 2011, the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families accepts about 90 species:[8]


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Cultivation


Cultivars of Hippeastrum are popular bulbous flowers for indoor growing. The bulb is tender and should not be exposed to frost, but is otherwise easy to grow, with large rewards for small efforts, especially those that bloom inside during the winter months. The very large, decorative flowers can also be grown outside in temperate areas.
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Your photostudy tonight:  Shots in my garden this week:

























































































GOODNIGHT EVERYBODY!!!

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enya
Enya (born Eithne Ní Bhraonáin, Irish pronunciation: [ˈɛnʲə nʲiː ˈvˠɾˠiːn̪ˠaːnʲ], anglicized as Enya Brennan, 17 May 1961) is an Irish singer, instrumentalist and songwriter. Enya is an approximate transliteration of howEithne is pronounced in the Donegal dialect of the Irish language, her native tongue.


Astronomy Picture of the Day

See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available.



Blue Straggler Stars in Globular Cluster M53 
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA
Explanation: If our Sun were part of M53, the night sky would glow like a jewel box of bright stars. M53, also known as NGC 5024, is one of about 250 globular clusters that survive in our Galaxy. Most of the stars in M53 are older and redder than our Sun, but some enigmatic stars appear to be bluer and younger. These young stars might contradict the hypothesis that all the stars in M53 formed at nearly the same time. These unusual stars are known as blue stragglers and are unusually common in M53. After much debate, blue stragglers are now thought to be stars rejuvenated by fresh matter falling in from a binary star companion. By analyzing pictures of globular clusters like the above imagetaken by the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers use the abundance of stars like blue stragglers to help determine the age of the globular cluster and hence a limit on the ageof the universe. M53, visible with a binoculars towards the constellation of Bernice's Hair (Coma Berenices), contains over 250,000 stars and is one of the furthest globularsfrom the center of our Galaxy.


....this is brendasue signing off from Rainbow Creek






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2 comments:

  1. lee battlesApril 12, 2012 at 7:56 PM

    another beautiful and entertaining presentation. well done brendasue, :0 very interesting and informative as always. :)

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  2. nedimApril 16, 2012 at 4:47 AM

    Hello Brenda, all your photographs and all details about flowers is very good.
    Enya' s music resting

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