PANCRATIUM SICKENBERGERI

This member of the Amaryllidaceae family was given this name by Paul Friedrich Augus Ascherson and Georg August Schweinfurth in 1882. It is found in Egypt, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Saudi Arabia and Sinai, growing in a well drained sandy soil with little to some water and lots sun. The bulb can grow to seven centimetres in diameter, the entire plant to twenty centimetres in height. The flowers are white. The genera name from the Greek pankratos, meaning 'strength'. The species name after Ernst Sickenberger,1831–1895, a German botanist, who ended in Cairo. The bulbs from Tipwell.