Red Spider Lily----Lycoris radiata

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Description: Japanese Name: 彼岸花, ヒガンバナ Distribution: Nepal to C. & S. Japan ((29) sey 36 CHC CHN CHS 38 JAP KOR nns 40 NEP (74) ill (78) ala fla geo kty lou vrg) Lifeform: Bulb geophyte Basionym Amaryllis radiata.mw-parser-output.smallcaps{font-variant:small-caps}L'Hér., Sert. Angl.: 15 (1789). Homotypic synonyms Nerine radiata (L'Hér.) Sweet, Hort. Brit.: 403 (1826). Orexis radiata (L'Hér.) Salisb., Gen. Pl.: 118 (1866), not validly publ. Heterotypic synonyms Nerine japonica Miq., Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugduno-Batavi 2: 139 (1865). Lycoris radiata var. terraccianii Dammann, Nursery Cat. (Dammann) 44: 4 (1889). Lycoris terracianii Dammann, Nursery Cat. (Dammann) 44: 4 (1889). Nerine japonica alba J.R.Duncan & V.C.Davies, Nursery Cat. (Duncan & Davies) 1925: xviii (1925). Lycoris radiata var. pumila Grey, Hardy Bulbs 2: 58 (1938). Lycoris radiata f. bicolor N.Yonez., J. Phytogeogr. Taxon. 37: 74 (1989). Lycoris radiata var. kazukoana N.Yonez., J. Phytogeogr. Taxon. 37: 73 (1989). Date: 3 October 2016. Source: Lycoris radiata '長州桃華 - Cyousyutouka' (L'Hér.) Herb., Bot. Mag. 47: t. 2113, p. 5 (1819). Author: Jim Evans.