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Hippeastrum

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Hippeastrum 

a genus of bulbaceous, herbaceous perennial plants of the Amaryllidaceae family. There are about 75 subtropical and tropical American species that are raised everywhere (frequently under the name “amaryllis”) as house plants and in hothouses. In the south they are raised on open soil. They are plants with long ribbon-like or belt-like leaves and large funnel-shaped or bell-shaped flowers of various colors set on high floral shoots. The ribbon Hippeastrum (H. vittatum) and the tall Hippeastrum (H. procerum) are among the species raised in the USSR.

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Dictionary of Gardening, 2nd ed., vol. 2. Oxford, 1956.

M. E. KIRPICHNIKOV



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The trumpets of the bulbous perennials Hippeastrums are in full swing and range in colour from red, orange, yellow, pink and white.
2) Bold trumpets The Hippeastrum, sometimes incorrectly known as the amaryllis, is a stunning houseplant bulb.
Abstract The dichloromethane and n-butanol extracts obtained from fresh bulbs of Hippeastrum vittatum (Amaryllidaceae), collected in Southern Brazil, were evaluated for their cytotoxic activity in vitro against five human cell lines (HT29 colon adenocarcinoma, H460 non-small cell lung carcinoma, RXF393 renal cell carcinoma, MCF7 breast cancer, and OVCAR3 epithelial ovarian cancer), using the sulphorhodamine B assay.
 
 
 
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