Talk:Hippeastrum

To clarify my mangled edit summary: Amaryllis is a different genus, which is why calling a Hippeastrum an "amaryllis" would be erroneous (I know they're both lilies and very similar, but there are important differences noted at Talk:Amaryllis). I also removed Image:Flower.jpg (love the file name) because if it is indeed a belladonna lily (Amaryllis belladonna), it's not a Hippeastrum and shouldn't be included here. It's hard enough differentiating the two genera without conflicting illustrations. ;) -- Hadal 06:14, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for updating that. I'm now very confused. I was annoyed because I clicked on Amaryllis somewhere, which redirected me here. Now I see that there is not only an Amaryllis article, but I actually put the same photo there a couple of weeks ago, so there's no excuse for being sloppy here. (Yeah, I was surprised to see the photo name--esp. surprised that there wasn't already an image with that name, too!) If only I could remember where I was that brought me here after clicking amaryllis--which clearly had gone somewhere other than to the Amaryllis article. Argh. Elf | Talk 18:16, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)

All of my gardening books classify Hippeastrum to the family "Amaryllidaceae", not liliaceae , altough it is clear that it is not part of the genus "Amaryllis". Also there is a discrepancy between the articles Hippeastrum and Amaryllidaceae in this matter. Can somebody clarify? --Chino 09:59, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)