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hippeastrum

NOUN
  1. amaryllis of tropical America often cultivated as a houseplant for its showy white to red flowers

How To Use hippeastrum In A Sentence

  • Hippeastrum are a delight over the winter months. Times, Sunday Times
  • Johnsoni_ (properly a hippeastrum), with red flowers. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
  • All the individuals of these bigeneric crosses have the foliage of the Hippeastrum; and so I think, will be their flowers.
  • In horticultural practice, bud abortion, i.e. ceasing of the development of the shoot in flower bulbs, is a substantial problem in several crops, including hippeastrum, nerine and tulip.
  • What could be better than a hippeastrum, their in-your-face trumpets blazing from a fat stem? Times, Sunday Times
  • In horticultural practice, bud abortion is a substantial problem in several crops, including hippeastrum, nerine and tulip.
  • Use hippeastrum, paperwhite narcissus, hyacinth or even crocus and miniature iris. Times, Sunday Times
  • Amaryllis hippeastrum Eating the bulb can cause abdominal pain. About Today
  • The Christmas Cactus galloped and had finished flowering by early December, ditto the hippeastrum.
  • Here are just a few: piece in the Guardian Weekend last Saturday championing the delights of amaryllis (aka hippeastrum) as an indoor winter bloom. Life and style | guardian.co.uk
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