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of gardens). About 25-45cm tall. Leaves thin, twisted, petioled, narrowly oblong to lanceolate, aggregated near the apex of sterile shoots. Flowering stems loosely foliaged, bearing five to six flowers in a simple umbel subtended by a ruff of many large leafy bracts. Flowers narrowly funnel-shaped, composed of slender obovate t o oblanceolate somewhat unequal tepals, 3.5-4.5cm long, crimson-claret to dark red below, all spotted brown within, and prominently tipped deep green. Northern provinces of Brazil. Better known under its invalid name of A. psittacina, this species has now correctly inherited A. pulchella. That epithet has also been used later for different alstroemerias by two other authors. It is therefore necessary to indicate that here is the particular A. pulchella of Linnaeus the son (L.fil.). Surprisingly hardy at the foot of a sunny wall or large rock, surviving all the but the hardest winters without special protection.
a, A. ligtu; b, A. pelegrina; c, A. psittacina of gradens; d, A. pulchella;