[pbs] Scadoxus multiflorus ssp. katherinae

Jim McKenney jimmckenney at jimmckenney.com
Thu Jul 31 12:51:32 EDT 2008


Scadoxus multiflorus bloomed here about a month or more ago. As Diana
mentions, it’s an easily grown plant.

The stock I grow is of the mass-market version which is sold in local retail
nurseries and derives, I think, from commercial stock grown in India.

I assume this is Scadoxus multiflorus multiflorus. As I know it, it’s a
smaller plant than the one described by Diana: mine have never been taller
than about eight to ten inches in bloom, and the foliage has never topped
fifteen to eighteen inches. The inflorescence is about the size of a
grapefruit. 

I’ve often wondered what differences there are between S. multiflorus
multiflorus and S. multiflorus katherinae, but in the images on Diana’s site
and on the wiki I can see that the leaves and inflorescence are somewhat
different. 

Do these plants have a distinct distribution in nature?  

Jim McKenney
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