Brunsvigia orientalis

[Heinie]

Now here is a bulb that should do well in your hot environment. This is one of my Brunsvigia orientalis. They are found in a very hot part of our country. I removed a few bulbs a few years ago. I have 3 bulbs that flower every year. They grow in plain sand and grow very deep. The bulb has very fleshy and long roots. When I dug it out I dug about 1.2 meters deep around the bulb not to damage the roots. I found out with one of the bulbs that they grow roots again very quickly. One of the 3 bulbs flowered with 2 scapes in 2009. There are normally over 70 flowers on this bulb's head. They set seeds very easy and are dispersed in the same way as the Boophone seeds. After the dry flower head falls off it grows 8 huge flat leaves.

In 2009 and 2010 I made crosses with Amaryllis Belladonna x Brunsvigia orientalis. I have a few seedlings doing well and the leaves are all semi erect and a little wider than the Amaryllis Belladonna leaves. This is called an Amarygia.



















This was the smallest bulb that I sent to a friend and cut the roots to save on weight for postage.


This is the bulb that grew two scapes in 2009. I re-potted the bulb in the black pot after flowering into a much larger pot.


This was the leaves in 2009 and are much bigger now.


The seedlings in 2009 when they germinated.

[Farhan Ahmed]

Majestic Bulb and Roots

[Hamad Ahmed Kisana]

i am mesmerized after seeing beauty of this bulb.what grandeur it have both in flower and bulb size.great

[M Farooq]

Really amazing. Flowers look like red fireworks in the sky.

[aykhan]

Exceptional.

[Munir]

Magnificent.......a masterpiece of nature.
Heinie, this was the one I had seen in the first instance on night 21st/22nd,wrote a comment & went over to the next post.I reverted back to it a few minutes later and when tried to make additional comments, it disappeared from my screen & the Forum site. I couldn't find it inspite of repeated efforts, before I wrote to you as below & even later:

Re: Amaryllis Belladonna
by Munir » August 22nd, 2013, 1:58 am
IP:
Heinie, you were so right to say that there would be many surprises to come; they are continuing to flow. Thanks
I was just trying to revert to your previous/last post of an even more beautiful & majestic flower, but it seems to have disappeared.Don't remember the name. Could you trace it out or repost.

Now it has reappeared in the " View unread posts" & without my earlier remarks. Strange, isn't it ? How has it happened?What do you think, Farhan?

[Farhan Ahmed]

No Idea

[Tahir Khan]

Lovely plant, I love the leaf arrangement its very unique