Amana edulis (Miq.) Honda

Species

Angiosperms > Liliales > Liliaceae > Amana

Characteristics

A bulb plant. The bulb is 1.5-4 cm across. It has a brown papery covering. Then stem is usually simple and 10-25 cm long. It is slender. There are usually 2 leaves. They are narrow. They are 10-25 cm long by 5-9 mm wide. There is one flower. The flower stalk is 2-4 cm long. The flower is white streaked with purple-red. The fruit is a capsule which is half round and 5-7 mm across. The tip has a long beak.
Life form perennial
Growth form -
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 0.02 - 0.04
Mature height (meter) 0.15
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
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Fruit color -
Fruiting months
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

It is a temperate plant. It grows on grassy slopes and hillsides from near sea level to 1700 m altitude in N China.
Light 7-9
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 3-6
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 7-8

Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible bulbs leaves roots shoots
Therapeutic use Abscess (unspecified), Alterative (unspecified), Blood (unspecified), Bubo (unspecified), Cancer(Stomach) (unspecified), Carbuncle (unspecified), Nutrient (unspecified), Scrofula (unspecified), Tonic (unspecified), Tumor (unspecified), Tumor(Lung) (unspecified), Urogenital (unspecified), Wound (unspecified), Bite(Bug) (unspecified), Poison (unspecified), Breast (unspecified), Cancer(Breast) (unspecified), Rabies (unspecified), Struma (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Amana edulis unspecified picture

Distribution

Amana edulis world distribution map, present in China, Japan, and Korea (Democratic People's Republic of)

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:530059-1
WFO ID wfo-0000759390
COL ID 5TXNN
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Amana edulis f. duplexa Tulipa edulis Gagea argyi Gagea hypoxioides Orithyia edulis Orithyia oxypetala Amana graminifolia Gagea coreana Tulipa minifolia Ornithogalum edule Amana edulis Tulipa graminifolia