Easy meat

The snap above was sent in by a correspondent and I sent it in to Google Images. A clear vote for the paintbrush plant (Haemanthus albiflos) to be found at reference 1.

The story is that the brush is made up of lots of small flowers, but without having one to hand to take to pieces, I can't see them in the zoomed version above, although one supposes that each floret gets more than one of the orange blobs, blobs which I take to be stamens.

Odd that I have not come across one of these before, despite it being a member of the amaryllis family and BH being keen on the large bulb which she calls amaryllis and sometimes grows at Christmas. Including last Christmas as I recall. At which point confusion sets back in, as Wikipedia suggests that what she grows is probably a hippeastrum from south America, rather than an amaryllis from south Africa. See references 2 and 3.

Clearly need to consult BH in the morning.

PS: there must be a whole world of hippeastrum lovers out there, with both Bing and Google turning up all kinds of exotic specimens, a lot of them much fancier than anything grown here in Epsom.

References

Reference 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haemanthus_albiflos.

Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaryllis.

Reference 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippeastrum.