After many dry years
Jane McGary via pbs (Fri, 21 Aug 2020 15:26:58 PDT)

Rhodophiala ananuca is one of the kinds I referred to, and another is
Rhodophiala bagnoldii. One year I visited a good site for the latter and
saw nothing, but later we were driving along and found some flowering in
a young olive orchard that had drip irrigation. I wish we had R. ananuca
(the species name is, with tildes on the n's, the local name in Peru and
Chile for amaryllids of this form, also applied to some Hippeastrum),
because it comes in quite a range of colors in a single population, from
pure white to peach-pink. It grows in very high stabilized sand dunes,
but inland from the ocean with a ridge of dunes between. The same
habitat hosts the rare Alstroemeria werdermannii.

I'm not sure what the recent revision of South American Amaryllidaceae
has done to Rhodophiala, but will keep using the old names until told
not to.

Jane McGary, Portland, Oregon, USA

On 8/21/2020 1:32 PM, Andrew via pbs wrote:

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