Stellenbosch University Botanical Garden, South Africa

Common name: Scadoxus

Family: Amaryllidaceae (Amaryllis)

Synonym: Haemanthus nutans

Distribution: Ethiopia

IUCN Red list: Not evaluated

Comments: Scadoxus nutans is really unusual. No other member of the genus Scadoxus has downard facing flowers, but what really sets it apart, even within the Amaryllid family, is its preference for growing as an epiphyte on trees.
Scadoxus nutans also grows only in one small area, an Ethiopian endemic, found only in high, evergreen mountain forest in the Kaffa and Illubabor regions in the southwest. Although it grows from 1,000 m 2,500, above sea level it can only tolerate temperatures down to 10 degrees Celcius.
A 2011 article in Curtis's Botanical Magazine describes the species as "vulnerable" as a result of ongoing loss and degradation of its mountain forest habitat.
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scadoxus_nutans accessed 2019/04/16
Jonathan Hutchinson & Melaku Wondafrash, 17 March 2011, 699. SCADOXUS NUTANS. Curtis's Botanical Magazine. Acessed 2019/04/16 at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1467-8748.2011.01725.x