Ammocharis

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Read about Ammocharis in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Ammocharis (ammos, sand; charis, beauty). Amaryllidaceae. Greenhouse bulb, cultivated for late winter and spring bloom.

Allied to Brunsvigia, but the perianth regular, the tube cylindrical and straight, ovary flask-shaped and narrowed to a neck.—Two species hi Cape of Good Hope region (by some regarded as forms of one species): A. falcata, Herb., with limb 4 times length of tube, and A. coranica, Burchell, B.R. 139:1219 (as Amaryllis), with limb only twice as long.


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