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n. - Amaryllis of tropical America often cultivated as a houseplant for its showy white to red flowers.

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  • Here are just a few: piece in the Guardian Weekend last Saturday championing the delights of amaryllis (aka hippeastrum) as an indoor winter bloom.
  • Hicks, Edward, quoted hicoria species hippeastrum hitching to trees hoes hollies hollyhock hollyhock rust honey locust honeysuckles
  • 3 amaryllis 3rd yr. bulbs Christmas Star hippeastrum
  • You see above the freshly stocked plant room: 2 large gardenias, a banana, an alocasia, a colocasia (Thai giant), 2 jasmines, 3 orchids, 2 hippeastrum, a big croton, a...
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