Hippeastrum puniceum

This bulb grows easily and produces abundant scarlet flowers with a very elegant shape. Their colour is hard to describe and hard to portrait in pictures, of a spectacular, bright, salmon-crimson orange.

It is a widespread species, occuring in tropical Central and South America. It can take hard drought and it will always come back.

The drawing shown in our picture gallery was published by the Lamarck in 1783.