AUTUMN-FLOWERING AMARYLLIS FAMILY UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF HUMID SUBTROPICS OF RUSSIA

The expansion of flower plants assortment will allow them to be used in various forms of flower decoration, for forcing and cutting, and will provide the further development of domestic floriculture. Conservation, maintenance and study of bulbous flowers collection from Amarulidaceae family growing in the protected soil of the Floriculture Department, as well as selection of species with autumn and late autumn flowering are the purpose of this work. As a result of the conducted studies, the autumnflowering representatives of the family were grouped according to the flowering time, perianth lobe colour and peduncle height. Most of the species flowered in October, had a pink colour of varying intensity and a peduncle height of 30–50 cm.