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Alstroemeriaceae
Inca Lily (Bomarea)
Bomarea
Devotion, climbing aspiration, friendship.
- Family
- Alstroemeriaceae
- Genus
- Bomarea
- Native to
- Central and South America (Andes)
- Bloom season
- Summer
- Type
- twining vine
- Height
- 1–6 m climbing
- Sunlight
- Partial shade
- Soil
- Rich, moist, well-drained
- Water
- Regular
- Hardiness
- 8–10
- Lifespan
- Perennial
Did you know
- Bomarea is the climbing cousin of alstroemeria — its tubers have been eaten in Andean cuisine for centuries.
- The pendant clusters of tubular flowers can contain dozens of individual blossoms hanging in a chandelier-like arrangement.
- Bomarea grows naturally up to elevations of 4,000 m in the Andes, often scrambling through cloud forest vegetation.
- The genus is named after Jacques-Christophe Valmont de Bomare, an 18th-century French naturalist.
- Hummingbirds are the chief pollinators, drawn to the bright tubular flowers full of nectar.