Type of Flowers
Clivia: Clivia is a genus of monocot flowering plants native to southern Africa. They are from the solid unit of measurement Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae.Common names include Kaffir lily too bush lily. They are herbaceous evergreen plants, alongside green, strap-like leaves. Individual flowers are to a greater extent than or less bell-shaped, occurring inwards umbels on a stem inwards a higher house the foliage; colors typically gain from yellowish through orangish to red. Many cultivars exist, some alongside variegated foliage patterns.
Species of Clivia are flora exclusively inwards South Africa too Swaziland. They are typically wood undergrowth plants, adapted to depression lite (with the exception of C. mirabilis from the Western Cape).
Clivia shares mutual features alongside the other members of the subfamily Amaryllidoideae. Individual flowers accept iii sepals too iii petals, all really similar (although the sepals are typically narrower than the petals) too collectively called tepals. In Clivia the tepals are fused at the base of operations to shape a tube, although this may endure really short. The bloom varies inwards shape from an opened upwardly loving cup to a narrow hanging tube. In the species the flowers are mainly inwards shades of yellowish through orangish to red. The flowers are arranged inwards umbels (i.e. the flower-stalks or pedicels radiate from a unmarried point); each umbel has a long stem or peduncle. Several bracts subtend the umbels. Each bloom has half dozen stamens too an inferior ovary (i.e. 1 which is below the tepals) made upwardly of iii locules. The stamens accept long filaments too anthers which are gratis to movement on their filaments. The mode is longer than the tepals, ending inwards a curt three-part stigma.
Flowering fourth dimension varies. Typically C. miniata, C. nobilis too C. caulescens bloom inwards belatedly wintertime too spring; inwards cultivation, C. miniata has out of flavour flowers at virtually whatsoever time. C. gardenii too C. robusta bloom inwards the autumn. Interspecific hybrids too cultivars tin hand the sack bloom at virtually whatsoever fourth dimension of the twelvemonth depending on climate too the flowering designing of their raise species. H5N1 distinctive characteristic of Clivia – shared alongside the closely related genus Cryptostephanus – is that dissimilar most species inwards the subfamily, it does non shape bulbs. The long strap-shaped leaves are evergreen too saltation from thick branching roots or rhizomes. Like other members of the tribe Haemantheae to which it belongs, Clivia fruits are berries. When ripe, they comprise large fleshy seeds which are oft to a greater extent than than 1 cm inwards diameter.
Clivias are pop equally garden plants alongside many populace volume plantings of older miniata cultivars too interspecific hybrids. There are besides groups of hobbyists growers around the basis who encounter regularly to larn to a greater extent than too display newer improved specimens. Clubs inwards Commonwealth of Australia include the Melbourne Clivia Group, who encounter to portion data too promote the civilization of Clivias, too the Toowoomba Cliva Society, where a Spring Carnival of Flowers occurs.
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