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Sep 26, 2015 4:53 PM CST
Name: Jean
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Perhaps it may require a discussion with the moderators and Dave. The Family is Amaryllidaceae with something like 60+ genera. Maybe there should be a change in the language?

Amaryllis is the type genus for the Family Amaryllidaceae, but only has, best I could find, 2 species.

Genus Hippeastrum has over 70+ species and more than 600 hybrids.

Genus Sprekelia has 2 species, but with Hippeastrum has spawned xHippeastrelia , a hybrid (Ma Nature getting her pinkie in the mix again)

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