Nerine

Nerine bowdenii

The Guernseylilien or nerines ( Nerine ) are a genus of flowering plants in the family Amaryllidaceae family ( Amaryllidaceae ). The genus includes about 22 to 30 species from southern Africa. The genus name is derived from the Greek Nerine sea nymphs, the Nereids.

Description

Nerine species are perennial herbaceous plants. This form Geophyten onions as outlasting. There are evergreen species and species that form leaves only in winter or in summer. The undergraduate and change-constant leaves are sessile. The simple, parallel venation leaf blade is linear or lanceolate. The leaf margin is smooth.

The flowers are usually together in doldigen inflorescences. There are usually two bracts present. The hermaphrodite, threefold flowers are more or less zygomorphic. The six free bracts are alike ( tepals, perianth ) and relatively narrow. The edge of the bloom is usually wavy. The color palette of the flowers ranges depending on the type of scarlet and crimson to pale pink and white.

Dissemination

The original occurrence of the genus Nerine is restricted to southern Africa ( capensis). The greatest diversity of species is found in South Africa, especially in the summer rainfall region of the Eastern Cape Province. Several species are endemic to a very narrowly defined area. The genus grows wild in all South African provinces as well as in Lesotho and Swaziland. Some more common species also grow in Namibia and Botswana.

Horticultural use

The nerines on Guernsey were allegedly washed ashore from a 1659 stranded on the way home from Japan Dutch ship. So were the Netherlands certain boxes of bulbs of Nerine sarniensis, an endemic to Table Mountain in Cape Town style, reaches the west coast of the island of Guernsey.

The first evidence for a bred in Europe Guernseylilie, Nerine sarniensis, however, dates from 1630 from Paris. Guernsey but became a center for the breeding of Nerine species. The most important species is named after the island: " Sarnia " was the name of the island in the time of the Roman Empire. Beginning of the 19th century, the export of flowers by the local plant breeders into a major industry on Guernsey. Guernseylilen were among the first types that were exported to London. However, since only about 15-20 % of the onion blossom ( a problem that is caused by over-fertilization), the Guernseylilien were soon back behind gladioli and other flowers.

Ingredients

The Nerine species are poisonous and contain lycorine.

System

A synonym for Nerine Herb. is Imhofia Heist .. The genus belongs to the subtribe Nerine Strumariinae from the tribe Amaryllideae in the subfamily Amaryllidoideae within the family of Amaryllidaceae. Previously, she was also classified in the family Liliaceae.

There are about 22 to 23 ( formerly 30) species in the genus Guernseylilien ( Nerine ) ( selection):

• Nerine angustifolia ( Baker) Baker
• Nerine appendiculata Baker
• Nerine bowdenii W.Watson
• Nerine filifolia Baker
• Nerine humilis ( Jacq. ) Herb.
• Nerine huttoniae Schönland
• Nerine krigei W.F.Barker
• Nerine laticoma ( Ker Gawl. ) T.Durand & Schinz
• Nerine masoniorum L.Bolus
• Nerine pudica Hook. f
• Nerine rehmannii ( Baker) L.Bolus
• Nerine sarniensis (L.) Herb. ( Syn: Nerine Curvifolia ( Jacq. ) Herb, Nerine fothergillii ( Poir. ) M.Roem, Nerine venusta ( Ker Gawl ) Herb.. .. )
• Nerine undulata (L.) Herb. ( Syn: Nerine alta WFBarker, Nerine flexuosa ( Jacq. ) Herb. )

Swell

• Rachel & Rod Saunders: Nerines in South Africa: A Primer.