Hippeastrum reticulatum (L'Hér.) Herb.
Netted-veined amaryllis
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Summary
Hippeastrum reticulatum, the netted-veined amaryllis, is a flowering perennial herbaceous bulbous plant, in the family Amaryllidaceae, native to South America.
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About the genus · Hippeastrum
Hippeastrum is a genus of 116 species, and over 600 hybrids and cultivars, of perennial, herbaceous and bulbous plants, native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas, from Mexico south to Argentina and on some islands in the Caribbean. The majority have large, fleshy bulbs and tall, broad, strap-like leaves that are (generally) evergreen, and large red or purple flowers. Numerous colors and cultivars have been created over the past hundred years.
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At a glance
Also known as Amaryllis agatha Steud.; Amaryllis caroliniae Sterler; Amaryllis carolinii Sterler; Amaryllis praeclara Sweet; Amaryllis princeps Vell. and 18 more.
Cultivation
Grouped as a bulb, tuber or caudex by Amaryllidaceae, which is usually but not always one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum; the cold floor is the habitat's alone, and no prose comes from the table.
Its year Rain rule: a summer growing season, April to October in the northern hemisphere (October to April at the habitat, southern).
This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.
The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the year's rain (1118 mm of 1476 mm) falls in October to April, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 24.1 °C against a yearly mean of 22.4 °C). Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: April to October.
Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.
Rain Habitat rain 1476 mm a year, wettest January at 207 mm, driest August at 55 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
1476 mm a year at the habitat, 1118 mm of it October to April. Wettest month January at 207 mm, driest August at 55 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 1238 mm to 2127 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).
CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.
Light Open sky over the habitat: 22 to 38 mol/m²/day.
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
Open sky over the habitat: 22 to 38 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 18, the highest 90th-percentile month 42).
CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.
Warmth and air Cold floor 14.0 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is 14.0 °C, the absolute minimum 9.6 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 36.3 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 15.8 °C in July (across the envelope cells 10.3 °C to 19.9 °C), warmest day 28.0 °C in February (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 14.0 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).
NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.
Relative humidity at the habitat: 62 to 65% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.
CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.
The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.
Climate across the habitat
Figures by month
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day °C | 28 / 26–30 | 28 / 26–30 | 28 / 26–30 | 26 / 24–28 | 24 / 21–27 | 23 / 19–26 | 23 / 19–25 | 24 / 21–26 | 25 / 21–27 | 26 / 23–28 | 27 / 24–28 | 27 / 25–29 |
| Night °C | 22 / 18–24 | 22 / 18–24 | 22 / 17–24 | 20 / 15–23 | 18 / 12–22 | 16 / 11–21 | 16 / 10–20 | 16 / 12–20 | 17 / 13–21 | 19 / 15–22 | 20 / 16–23 | 21 / 18–23 |
| Rain mm | 207 / 131–307 | 161 / 84–230 | 152 / 132–203 | 110 / 85–179 | 83 / 54–158 | 65 / 44–130 | 64 / 42–118 | 55 / 38–93 | 91 / 60–161 | 129 / 97–184 | 172 / 131–219 | 187 / 162–231 |
| DLI | 38 / 35–42 | 37 / 35–42 | 34 / 32–37 | 29 / 25–31 | 24 / 21–26 | 22 / 18–24 | 23 / 19–25 | 28 / 23–29 | 31 / 26–33 | 34 / 31–36 | 36 / 34–40 | 38 / 35–40 |
| RH % | 65 / 63–68 | 65 / 63–68 | 65 / 62–68 | 65 / 62–66 | 64 / 62–65 | 64 / 62–65 | 63 / 60–65 | 62 / 57–66 | 62 / 58–66 | 63 / 60–66 | 64 / 60–67 | 65 / 62–68 |
Each figure is the median across the 92 grid cells holding the 129 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 2231:2769 (-21.575, -41.525). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 9.6 °C, 1st-percentile night 14.0 °C, 99th-percentile day 36.3 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 92 distinct grid cells holding the 129 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2231:2769 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -21.50_-41.250, lapse-corrected +50 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 119 m (cell mean).
Natural habitat
Photographs
Photographs: no rights reserved · CC0; (c) Pedro Alvaro Neves, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); (c) Marcos Maes, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Henrique Bitencourt, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (2).
Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.
Papers naming this species
Works whose title or abstract names Hippeastrum reticulatum, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.
Related
Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.
Pseudobombax grandiflorum Brazilian shaving-brush tree
Dorstenia arifolia Moraceae
Sinningia speciosa Brazilian Gloxinia
Trimezia gracilis Iridaceae
Brasiliopuntia brasiliensis Brazilian pricklypearOther Hippeastrum 1 in the reference
History & registers
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