Cyanella
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Read about Cyanella in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Cyanella (from the blue color). Amaryllidaceae; it has been referred to Liliaceae and also to Haemodoraceae. A half-dozen or less small bulbs from S. Afr., sometimes grown in the way of ixias. Plants with rhizomes or tunicate corms, radical or basal lanceolate or linear lvs., and simple or rarely branched sts.: fls. violet, rose, yellow or white, solitary or racemed-paniculate; perianth-tube 0, the segms. distinct or very nearly so; stamens 6, attached to base of segms., all perfect, often dimorphous fr. a loculicidal 3-angled caps., on bractless pedicel. The cyanellas are summer- and fall-flowering bulbs with us. The following are the kinds likely to be found: C. capensis, Linn. Lvs. lanceolate, undulate: st. panicled, leafy, 1 ft.: fl. purple. B.M. 568. C. Iutea, Linn. f. (C. odoratissima, Lindl.). Less branched: lvs. linear-lanceolate, acuminate, not undulate: fls. rose, changing to yellow. B.R. 1111. L. H. B. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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