‘E Huang Xiao Ran’: A New Ornamental Lycoris straminea Cultivar

The genus Lycoris belongs to the Amaryllidaceae family, which is native to eastern and southern Asia; most of them are found in China, and a small number in Japan and Korea (Tsi and Meerow 2000). There are more than 20 species with a broad range of ﬂ ower color, leaf features, bulb size, and shape. The natural time to ﬂ ower for Lycoris is from the summer to the autumn, according to the species (Ji and Meerow 2000). When they bloom, the stems are lea ﬂ ess, the lea ﬂ ess stems grow off the bulb, and there is an in ﬂ orescence in the top stem that contains four to eight blooms. After ﬂ owering, the dormant leaves are retained for a long or short period of time before the leaves start to grow. Depending on the period of growth of the leaf, the species is divided into two distinct groups. The ﬁ rst type of leaf grows from autumn until the spring of the following year (a short period of dormancy after the ﬂ owering). Most of these species have the typical characteristics of a spidery ﬂ ower and a narrow tepal. The other type is characterized by a tubular ﬂ ower; most of the species grow their leaves from spring to summer (a long dormant period after the ﬂ owering) (Cai et al. 2019). Thus, the absence of leaves