I found this Amaryllis blooming on my back deck a couple of days ago and I'm wondering who she might be.


The only white Amaryllis I've ever owned are:


I've owned Amaryllis 'Aphrodite' since 2008 and at first I thought it was her and that the blooms had reverted to white but I don't even know if Amaryllis flowers revert in color. The mystery blooms have a hint of green deep in their throats and there's a teeny, tiny bit of pink on the upper left petal of one of the mystery flowers and a hint of pink in the throat of another. I love this Amaryllis, whoever she is but for the life of me I can't figure out who that might be. So, my question .... do Amaryllis blooms ever revert to white??

Mystery .............................................. 'Aphrodite' who I thought maybe lost her pink.

Wow, that is a mystery! I did a quick internet search and wasn't able to find anything about bloom colors reverting over time. According to Veronica Read's "Hippeastrum, the Gardener's Amaryllis", H. aphrodite is one of the Japanese doubles developed by the Miyake Nursery. Read states that some of the Japanese doubles show a lot of natural variation in markings, in blooms on a single scape or on different scapes in the same year. So the question is, "Can there be this much variation over successive years?" In the absence of any other explanation, I bet that this is Aphrodite, which is not showing its markings this year for some reason. Three seasons from now will it continue to look like this or will it show its Aphrodite markings? Photo documentation is extremely important in this case. It you ever get bulblets on this one, it would be neat to grow them out to see their blooms.

Thanks Barbara, I was really confused about this one, I'll keep watch to see if any changes take place in the next few years! We are moving 100 miles south to Sebastian in two weeks (to be closer to my sister and her family who retired there a little over a year ago.) This Amaryllis is currently in a container with a Buddleja, Salvia and Ruellia ... the pot ended up being a container where I just stuck cuttings and things and then forgot about them. Once we are settled in our new home I plan to transplant a lot of my container plants into the ground so I will definitely look for bulblets of this Amaryllis and pot some up to see what happens.

Thanks again for your help!

Lin, it sure is a beautiful bloom.

Thanks Margaret!

My Apple Blossom is getting lighter each year - more white, with just a hint of blush to it. I am going to fool around with fertilizing and air temperature this next time to see if that makes any difference.

Maybe the fertilizer or the soil it is grown in, still a lovely bloom.

Lin, reminds me of pattern in Nymph dbl hippies. I've never had mine change color. They may fade or not be what I thought I planted but no change. Wondering if certain soils encourage more biochemical reactions than other. I grow in amended clay.