The Origin Of Clivia

Clivia, also known as kaffir lily or bush lily, originates in the subtropical forests on the eastern cape of South Africa. The unique flowers caught the attention of English explorers traveling to foreign destinations during the 1800's rush to collect, name, and classify rare and unusual species. William J. Burchell, a British naturalist stationed in Cape Town, scientifically recorded the first specimen in 1813, calling it a "forest cyrtanthus". Four or five years of the 20th century, Clivia park in Changchun start nurseries for the early varieties, such as "great victory", is named to commemorate the victory of the war; such as "dyeing factory", by Dongxing dyeing factory in Changchun and director of collections name; Another example is "Monk" is Changchun Huguo Prajna Temple puming and Shang Peiyu species, such Clivia known as the "Monk."

While both names co-existed in printed materials for a while and rumors swirled on exactly how each acquired their specimen, over time John Lindley's C. nobilis name presided. Nobilis means "noble person's orchid", and Clivia honors the Duchess of Northumberland, Lady Charlotte Florentine Clive, who cultivated the first flowers in her conservatory across the river from Kew. C. miniata, the most commonly grown species today, was discovered in the early 1850's in the garden province of KwaZulu-Natal. Breeders and collectors raved about the extraordinary flowers, creating fervent demand for Clivia as an easy to grow houseplant throughout Europe in Victorian times. Subsequently, the new greenhouse, plastic greenhouse constantly emerging, state-owned, collective, individual and specialized households have been started, formed from the tidal Clivia industrial development. Fair and exhibition followed throughout the country were flooded Buy. Changchun became the Clivia of Fish Culture, training, sales center, a veritable cradle of Chinese Clivia.

At that time, the Conservancy of several Clivia flower market, customers jostling throng, much more than other markets to be busy. Hongqi Street flower market, the peak has been accounted for Hongqi Street, Manpower Street and Tsing Hua Road, about 89 meters of the road. Flower market, people sell their products, can multiply the gains to the value of their products. Collectors introduced a cross of C. nobilis and C. miniata to Japan, Korea and China sometime between 1868 and 1912, and botanists there began to breed specialized hybrids sporting variegated leaves and unusually colored flowers. Third generation Clivia breeder, E.P. Zimmerman, brought Clivias to California, USA, when he immigrated from Germany in 1907. Most breeders today cross one of the pendulous species with C. miniata, creating beautiful variations that command hundreds or even thousands of dollars from serious collectors.