Albuca amoena (Batt.) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt
Asparagaceae
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About the genus · Albuca
Albuca is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae. The genus is distributed mainly in southern and eastern Africa, with some species occurring in northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Plants of the genus are known commonly as slime lilies.
Text from Wikipedia, “Albuca”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.
At a glance
Also known as Battandiera amoena (Batt.) Maire; Ornithogalum amoenum Batt.
Cultivation
Grouped as a bulb, tuber or caudex by the genus Albuca, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum; the cold floor is the habitat's alone, and no prose comes from the table.
Its year Rain rule: no rainy season to read (79 mm a year); the temperature rule's cooler six months are November to April in the northern hemisphere.
This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.
Rain at the habitat is 79 mm a year (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Under 120 mm the rain rule reads no rainy season, and the growing-season rule infers nothing from it. The temperature rule reads the cooler six months as November to April. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: May to October.
Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.
Rain Habitat rain 79 mm a year, wettest October at 13 mm, driest July at 1 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
79 mm a year at the habitat. Wettest month October at 13 mm, driest July at 1 mm; 3 months under 5 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 58 mm to 105 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).
CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.
Light Open sky over the habitat: 23 to 52 mol/m²/day.
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
Open sky over the habitat: 23 to 52 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA).
CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.
Warmth and air Cold floor 0.4 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is 0.4 °C, the absolute minimum -4.6 °C, about 3 frost nights a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 45.0 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 4.0 °C in January (across the envelope cells 2.5 °C to 4.7 °C), warmest day 40.5 °C in July (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 0.4 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).
NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.
Relative humidity at the habitat: 31 to 48% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.
CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.
The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.
Climate across the habitat
Figures by month
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day °C | 16 / 15–17 | 19 / 18–20 | 24 / 22–25 | 27 / 26–28 | 32 / 30–33 | 37 / 35–38 | 41 / 39–41 | 40 / 38–41 | 35 / 33–36 | 28 / 26–29 | 21 / 20–23 | 17 / 16–18 |
| Night °C | 4 / 3–5 | 7 / 5–8 | 10 / 8–11 | 14 / 12–14 | 18 / 16–18 | 23 / 20–23 | 26 / 24–27 | 26 / 23–26 | 22 / 20–22 | 16 / 14–17 | 10 / 8–11 | 6 / 4–6 |
| Rain mm | 7 / 4–8 | 10 / 6–12 | 8 / 5–9 | 5 / 3–8 | 5 / 3–8 | 3 / 2–5 | 1 / 1–2 | 3 / 2–4 | 8 / 5–11 | 13 / 11–18 | 9 / 8–13 | 7 / 6–8 |
| DLI | 25 / 25–26 | 32 / 31–32 | 40 / 40–41 | 47 / 47–48 | 51 / 51–51 | 52 / 52–52 | 51 / 50–51 | 47 / 47–47 | 41 / 41–41 | 33 / 33–34 | 27 / 26–27 | 23 / 23–24 |
| RH % | 47 / 45–48 | 44 / 43–46 | 40 / 38–42 | 38 / 36–40 | 37 / 35–40 | 34 / 33–37 | 31 / 30–33 | 33 / 32–35 | 38 / 36–40 | 42 / 41–44 | 46 / 44–47 | 48 / 47–50 |
Each figure is the median across the 34 grid cells holding the 58 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 1182:3545 (30.875, -2.725). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -4.6 °C, 1st-percentile night 0.4 °C, 99th-percentile day 45.0 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 34 distinct grid cells holding the 58 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1182:3545 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 31.00_-2.500, lapse-corrected -32 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 575 m (cell mean).
Natural habitat
Photographs
Photographs: (c) purperlibel, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (2); (c) avocat, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); (c) Genevieve Early, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Mehdi Chetibi, some rights reserved (CC BY).
Photographs: iNaturalist and Wikimedia Commons did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.
Papers naming this species
Works whose title or abstract names Albuca amoena, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.
Related
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