Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 08:39:32 +1200 From: "Fraser Broom" <fbroom@hort.cri.nz> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg1586$foo@default> Subject: New Zealand Lily?
>Allow me to give some northern hemisphere comment.
>Once I was given a New Zealand lily (Bella Donna, if I remember it
>well). Looked just like a little piece of garlick. Now it looks like
>a very big onion. But after 25 years(!) it is still heavily
>confused. It's putting up leaves when summer starts down-under.
If it is Amaryllis belladonna, it is not a New Zealand native,
neither is it confused. It puts up leaves in late summer or autumn,
as you describe. It flowers at roughly the same time. It might not
be flowering, but it has adjusted to the northern hemisphere seasons.
Dr Faser Broom
The Horticulture and Food Research Institute of New Zealand
Private Bag 3123
Hamilton
New Zealand
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