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|familia=Amaryllidaceae
|familia=Amaryllidaceae
|genus=Scadoxus
|genus=Scadoxus
|taxo_author=Raf.
|common_name=Blood lily
|common_name=Blood lily
|name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|habit=bulbous
|lifespan=perennial
|lifespan=perennial
|life_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|life_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|features=flowers
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'''''Scadoxus''''' is a genus of 9 species native to tropical [[Africa]]. The genus has close affinities with ''[[Haemanthus]]''.
==Cultivation==
==Cultivation==
==Varieties==
==Species==
Species in the genus are
*''S. cinnabarinus'' (Decne.) I.Friis & I.Nordal - West and [[Central Africa]]
*''[[Scadoxus cyrtanthiflorus|S. cyrtanthiflorus]]'' (C.H.Wright) I.Friis & I.Nordal - [[Ruwenzori]] mountains between Zaire and Uganda
*''S. longifolius'' (De Wild. & Th.Dur.) I.Friis & I.Nordal - [[West Africa]]
*''S. membranaceus'' (Bak.) I.Friis & I.Nordal - [[South Africa]]
*''[[Scadoxus multiflorus|S. multiflorus]]'' Rafin.
#ssp. ''multiflorus'' - [[Senegal]] and southern [[Arabia]] in the north down to [[KwaZulu-Natal]] in South Africa
#ssp. ''katherinae'' (Bak.) I.Friis & I.Nordal - southern Africa
#ssp. ''longitubus'' (C.H.Wright) I.Friis & I.Nordal - [[West Africa]]
*''S. nutans'' (I.Friis & Bjrnst.) I.Friis & I.Nordal - [[Ethiopia]]
*''S. pole-evansii'' (Oberm.) I.Friis & I.Nordal - [[Zimbabwe]]
*''S. pseudocaulus'' (Bjrnst. & I.Friis) I.Friis & I.Nordal - [[Tropical Africa]]
*''[[Scadoxus puniceus|S. puniceus]]'' (L.) I.Friis & I.Nordal - [[South Africa]], [[Tanzania]] and [[Ethiopia]]
==Gallery==
==Gallery==
