Botanical Name: Amaryllis belladonna
Common Name: Naked lady, Belladonna lily
Type of Plant: monocot: perennial bulb
 
Habit of Growth:
Overall Shape clumping plants with bold, strap-like foliage in winter and spring; plant dies back in summer and blooms in fall
Height 4 to 6'
Spread to 3'
Growth Rate rapid
 
Environment:
Exposure outdoors full sun
Soil tolerates any soil
Hardiness hardy; zones 4-24
 
Morphology:
Leaves narrow, linear parallel-veined leaves to 18" long, 3/4" wide appear in winter, die back in early summer
Flowers clusters of trumpet-shaped lily-like flowers, rosy pink to white; flowers to 4" long, 4" across; appear on long, reddish brown scapes
Fruit rounded capsule with flattened black seeds
 
Propagation:
division, seed
 
Usage:
used as a showy accent of rosy pink flowers in August or September; most effective toward back of a perennial border or in rustic landscapes; also effective in succulent or sub-tropical borders
 
Landscape Care:
Watering average watering; very drought tolerant when established
Fertilizing low nitrogen fertilizer in spring
Pruning remove dead leaves in early summer after die-back
Pests/Diseases none
Special Conditions/Other very long-lived in the landscape
 
Origin: South Africa
Family: Amaryllidaceae

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