I'm still learning...
Please, what it the genus name for the plants we normally call Amaryllis? And is there a separate genus for the 2 that are truly Amaryllis?
The plants in my yard that I call "Amaryllis" -
I was looking online at photos and saw the name "Hippeastrum" attached to what I know as Amaryllis.
I looked up the taxonomy for each of the two words and now am more confused than ever. Wiki pages tell me there are only 2 (two) Amaryllis and everything else is Hippeastrum.
Taxonomy for Amaryllis:
http://www.itis.gov/servlet/Si...
Taxonomy for Hippeastrum:
http://www.itis.gov/servlet/Si...
Oh, and this all started because I saw a photo online of a beautiful flower that was called Hippeastrum Papilio, Hippeastrum Butterfly, or Butterfly Amaryllis depending on who was writing the captions for the images...and because I had been typing incorrectly as 'papillo' it took a while to find it in our database.
