| Scientific Name: | Hippeastrum cvs. |
| Common Name: | amaryllis |
| Family Name: | Amaryllidaceae |
| Origin: | Central America, Garden origin, Mexico, South America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 8b: (-9.4 to -7 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Flowering pot plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Stiffly upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Indoor plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Basal, Sessile, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Lustrous, Lanceolate, Linear, Entire |
| Flowers: | Umbel, White, Orange, Pink, Magenta, Red, Dark-red, Jan-Feb-Mar-Dec |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Green, Brown, May-Jun |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Bulbs 5-13cm wide; leaves linear, eventually reaching 30-60cm x 2-5cm wide, glossy, and may not appear until after the flowers have opened; umbels with 2-6 flowers, each 15-30cm wide, sweet smelling, lily-like, on thick peduncle. | |