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Unconditional Satisfaction GuaranteeNo Shipping Fees Above 302 Months to Decide. Returns Simplified.Scadoxus multiflorus seeds grow into the blood lily a bulbous geophyte native to the subtropical biome across Tropical and southern Africa, east to the south-western Arabian Peninsula (Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman). Originally described as Haemanthus multiflorus by Thomas Martyn (17351825) in 1795, and transferred to the genus Scadoxus by Rafinesque in 1838, though the generic distinction from Haemanthus was only formally re-established by Friis & Nordal in 1976. The epithet multiflorus means ‘many-flowered’, referring to the spectacular, dense, globe-shaped umbel of up to 200 vivid scarlet-red flowers on a robust scape. Three subspecies: subsp. multiflorus (Tropical Africa wet tropical biome), subsp. katharinae (Friis & Nordal) (S. Africa subtropical biome) and subsp. longitubus (C.H.Wright) Friis & Nordal (W. Tropical Africa wet tropical biome). Flowers appear from bare ground before or with the leaves. Naturalised in Mexico and the Chagos Archipelago. All parts toxic Amaryllidaceae alkaloids. Family Amaryllidaceae.
Partial shade to full sun; well-drained soils; warm subtropical to tropical conditions; dry season dormancy. All parts toxic keep from children and pets.
Scadoxus multiflorus is the blood lily one of Africa’s most spectacular bulbous plants, its globe of up to 200 vivid scarlet flowers on a bare scape one of the most extraordinary inflorescences in the entire Amaryllidaceae family, ranging from tropical Africa to the Arabian Peninsula in a species whose taxonomic independence from Haemanthus took almost 150 years to be formally established.
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