Alstroemeria hookeri...probably. I got this from wild collected seed and while it's similar to the normal hookeri (about 6-8inches tall) the ground colour isn't pale salmon and green, this one is a sort of faded red velvet colour. After moving from the last greenhouse I thought I had lost all of these..they have a habit of escaping from the pot, the fleshy tuber like roots come out through the pot holes and into the sand, when you lift the pot the roots sever and the bits in the sand don't have growth points. I seem to have lost a yellow one (so that wasn't hookeri) but the "normal" hookeri and several of this one have survived. I'm tryin them under unshaded glass to keep them more compact and they do look better this year.
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