This flower is named after the person who discovered it, Baron Claus von Altromer, a baron from Sweden who gathered the seeds while visiting Spain in the year 1753. He was a pupil of the renowned botanist, Linnaeus.
A special morphological feature of this plant is that the leaves grow upside down and the leaf twists as it grows, with a result that the top of the leaf faces downwards.
The plants grow from two to three feet in height.
These flowers are devoid of fragrance.
Alstroemeria is a bilaterally symmetrical (zygomorphic) flower having 3 striped petals and 3 petals.
The sepals and petals have the same color.
If the temperature of the soil increases, then the plants start generating tuberous roots and this can even lead to a halt in production of flowers.
Alstroemeria flowers usually last one to two weeks.
Each plant can bear 3 to 7 flowers.
These plants bear flowers throughout the year, but the peak seasons are in spring and autumn.
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