There are about 50 species of tuberous and rhizomatous perennials, in this genus \u00a0They provide finest cut flowers. They derive from South America. \u00a0They from clumps of \u00a0erect wiry stems that carry scattered thin 3-5\u201d mid to gray green leaves that are linear to lance shaped and twisted appear on the upper half of the stems. \u00a0From spring to summer funnel shaped 6 tepaled 1 \u00bd-4\u201d long flowers appear with petals variously spotted or streaked. \u00a0Great plant for a mix or herbaceous border. \u00a0Contact with foliage may aggravate skin allergies.<\/p>\n
Plant tubers 8\u201d deep in late summer or early autumn. \u00a0Outdoors grow in moist but well drained fertile soil in sun or partial shade, they will only tolerate short drops in temperatures to 5 degrees Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n
Indoors grow in mix loam leaf mold and sharp sand. \u00a0During water season water freely and apply a balance liquid fertilizer monthly, water sparingly winter.<\/p>\n
Let establish for a year then divide.<\/p>\n
Prone to Gray mold<\/i><\/em>\u00a0and variety of virus disease also occur as well as spider mites<\/i><\/em>\u00a0and slug.<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n Alstroemeria pelegrina \u2013 Alstroemeria gayana<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 This species derives from Peru and is a tuberous perennial and grows 12-24\u201d tall and 2\u2019 feet wide. \u00a0In summer it bears white flowers flushed pink or purple and with a darker center. \u00a0Inner tepals are yellow at the base, with maroon flecks in solitary or 2-3 flowered rayed umbels with 1-3 flowers per ray.<\/p>\n Zones 8-10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alsroemeria \u2013 Peruvian lily There are about 50 species of tuberous and rhizomatous perennials, in this genus \u00a0They provide finest cut flowers. They derive from South America. \u00a0They from clumps of \u00a0erect wiry stems that carry scattered thin 3-5\u201d mid to gray green leaves that are linear to lance shaped and twisted appear on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":31101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[24,23,25],"product_tag":[],"common-name":[],"toolset-meta":{"plant-product-fields":{"is-featured-product":{"type":"checkbox","raw":""},"zone":{"type":"checkboxes","raw":"","checked":[],"formatted":""},"scientific-name":{"type":"textfield","raw":""}},"toolset-woocommerce-fields":{"_download_limit":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_virtual":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_downloadable":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_download_expiry":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_download_type":{"type":"radio","raw":""},"_regular_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price_dates_from":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sale_price_dates_to":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sku":{"type":"textfield","raw":"PDE-160254700"},"_manage_stock":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_stock_status":{"type":"radio","raw":"instock"},"_stock":{"type":"numeric","raw":null},"_backorders":{"type":"radio","raw":"no"},"_sold_individually":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_width":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_weight":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_length":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_purchase_note":{"type":"textarea","raw":""}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/6048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=6048"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=6048"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=6048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}