Description
This rare species has leaves which are very soft to the touch. The leaves are made with the flowers in cultivation or they may have vanished before flowering, in the wild (or with less than favourable cultural conditions).
The flowers are made in a spreading, pale-pink, fluffy umbel. This lovely flower head is surrounded by a halo of yellow from the protruding anthers held on pink filaments. It’s a lovely effect.
Haemanthus amarylloides makes smaller growths and thus smaller bulbs, than many of the other Haemanthus species.
Picture edited from – Plantarum Rariorum Horti Caesarei Schoenbrunnensis Descriptiones Et Icones, Original is Public Domain
