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Hippeastrum vittatum

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Family: Amaryllidaceae · Genus: Hippeastrum

Hippeastrum vittatum

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Hippeastrum vittatum, the superb amaryllis, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae. It is native to western Bolivia, southern Brazil, and Misiones Province, Argentina, and it has been introduced to a number of other locales around the world. A bulbous geophyte, it is typically found in the seasonally dry tropics. With Hippeastrum reginae it is a parent of Hippeastrum × johnsonii, an ornamental that gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit in 2012.

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