Details for: PI 689436, Hippeastrum hybr., 'Foxfire'


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Hippeastrum hybr.
Cultivar:
'Foxfire'
Origin:
–
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
20 Dec 2018
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Plant
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Availability
This is historical information about this accession. It no longer exists and can not be requested.
 
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Hippeastrum hybr.
Cultivar:
'Foxfire'
Origin:
–
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
20 Dec 2018
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Plant
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Source History
Accession Names and Identifiers
'Foxfire'
Type: Cultivar name
Meerow, Alan W. USDA, ARS

Narrative
Hippeastrum x hybridum ‘Foxfire’ is a moderately tall bulbous herbaceous perennial. Bulbs are 4.5-5.0 cm diam at first flowering, maturing to 7.0 - 8.0 cm, producing 1-2 offset bulbs annually. Leaves are strap-shaped, green two to four per bulb, 25-45 cm long, 4.5-5 cm wide. Scapes are 40-50 cm tall, usually 3 per bulb, each bearing 5-7 flowers per scape with pedicels 1-3 cm long. The flowers are moderately large and open funnelform in shape. The perianth is 11-12 cm long, laterally 14 cm and dorsoventrally 13 cm wide. The six tepals are of medium texture. The outer tepals are 12-13 cm long, and 5.5-6 cm wide, the dorsal outer to 7 cm wide; the inner tepals are 12-12.5 cm long, the inner laterals 5-6 cm wide; the ventral inner ca. 5 cm wide. The tepals are densely striated a reflective orange-red on their adaxial surface, with RHSCC red-purple 57A the closest match, with faint white keels. The inner lateral tepals are marked a deeper red on either side of the keel at their base. The throat is green, with a short ring of fimbrae at the throat. The tepals are similarly colored on their abaxial surfaces, with infusions of green to maroon towards the base. Stamens are 10 to 11.2 cm long, concolorous with the perianth for most of their length, green in the proximal 1.5 cm; pollen is yellow. The style is ca. 13 cm and colored similarly to the staminal filaments; the tri-lobed stigma is ca. 5 mm wide. This a complex, sixth generation hybrid that began with a primary hybrid of H. ambiguum x H. papilio, with successive crosses with H. brasilianum and the cultivars ‘Bouquet’, ‘Mt. Blanc’ and ‘Wonderland’. The final generation from which the selection was made was a cross of two F2 progeny.
Hippeastrum hybr.
Genus:
Hippeastrum
Family:
Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily:
Amaryllidoideae
Tribe:
Hippeastreae
Nomen number:

312386
Comment:
interim designation used in GRIN for Hippeastrum hybrids which lack an acceptable binomial
Verified:
09/17/1987 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Hippeastrum ×hybridum hort.

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