Yellow IDs

10 years ago

I need help with the ID of 3 yellow hippies.

I found the first in a German garden centre, labeled as "Amaryllis Lemon". It was quite small with dark red stalks. The flowers were more like trumpets, pale yellow with tiny red markings inside. I liked it very much but I'm afraid that I'm going to lose it because of rot.

It had 3 stalks that flowered and many small offsets, but severe rot problems and I had to cut several times without much success. When I decided to try twin scaling to save the bulb I found even a forth bud inside the tiny rest of the bulb!

The second I ordered as Lemon and Lime and I would like to know if it's true. The stalk is a little red at the base, it has 5 flowers on the first stalk, one of them is a conjoined flower. They are of a greenish yellow without any red markings.

The third one was supposed to be Misty which it obviously isn't. I was quite sad when I discovered the mislabel, because I really want to have Misty. But of course I want to know its real name! It's pale yellow when it opens but it gets almost white after a day with very pale salmon blushes. The upper petals are bent backwards in a funny way. The flowers are quite big (15 cm/5,9 in) and the stalks are red at the base.

This flower just opened.

This one opened yesterday.

I hope some of the experts here could help me with the ID. I've been reading this forum for quite a while and learnt a lot, but now ist the moment to start posting :-) Thanks everybody!

Anja

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catsandhippies
Original Author
10 years ago
Here's an update:

I think the last one is rather a white although its not completely white. I like it because there are so many flowers open at once.

Could anybody please help me to ID those three? The company where I ordered the last one offered Moscow and Matterhorn as Whites, Lemon Star as a Yellow. Any suggestions?

Anja
blancawing
10 years ago
last modified: 10 years ago
Hi Anja,

Here are some photos to help you decide.

Cheers,

Blanca

'Moscow'

'Lemon Star'
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macroclemys
10 years ago
Anja,

Here is a little information that might be helpful. In the first year that I had Lemon Lime and Lemon Star, there were clear differences in size. The flower diameter, when measured from top to bottom at their peak (before curling back much) was 13-16cm for Lemon Lime and 18-21cm for Lemon Star. Also Lemon Star has notably long pedicels (but I don't have measurements for this).

Bill
catsandhippies
Original Author
10 years ago
Thank you, Blanca and Bill for the beautiful fotos and the information! I'm still not sure whether I have the real Lemon and Lime, I read somewhere there are different clones. I will see whether I'll get the blushing next season.

The flowershape of the white one doesn't match your Moscow, Blanca, its almost triangular. Maybe it's rather matterhorn or even something else. I wouldn't have bought it but now I like it. It is quite a show with its 9 big flowers open all together.

The foto is not the best but you can see the differences in size and color.