Amana edulis
| Amana edulis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| Order: | Liliales |
| Family: | Liliaceae |
| Genus: | Amana |
| Species: | A. edulis |
| Binomial name | |
| Amana edulis (Miq.) Honda[1] | |
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Amana edulis (formerly Tulipa edulis) is a flowering bulb that is native to China, Japan, and Korea.[1][2][3]
Amana edulis is a bulb-forming perennial up to 25 cm tall. flowers are white, streaked with purlish-red.[2] The bulbs are edible and some cases can be used medicinally.[4]
References
- 1 2 3 "Amana edulis", World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2012-06-11
- 1 2 Flora of China, Vol. 24 Page 124 老鸦瓣 lao ya ban Tulipa edulis (Miquel) Baker
- ↑ Honda, Masaji 1935. Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan 6: 20
- ↑ Plants for a Future database
External links
- United States Department of Agriculture NPGS/GRIN database
- Chinese Plant Names
- B. J. M. Zonneveld, The systematic value of nuclear genome size for “all” species of Tulipa L. (Liliaceae), Plant Systematics and Evolution Volume 281, Numbers 1-4 (2009), 217-245
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