Earth and Space News: Elementary's Yellow Clivia and Yellow Clivia Botanical Illustrations

Summary: Yellow clivia botanical illustrations mix bell-like flowers, clumpy rhizomes, green leaves and red berries for Elementary's Seed Money Jan. 15, 2015.

Clivia miniata citrina, a yellow-flowered variety of Clivia, could be the yellow clivia that clues Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) to the killer of a skirt-chasing botanical genetic engineer in Seed Money (Elementary tv series, season 3 episode 10); Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town, Western Cape, southwestern South Africa; Oct. 6, 2014: Axxter99, CC BY SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Yellow clivia botanical illustrations never aggrieve their admirers with the agonizing aroma of coffee grounds and shredded mackerel for augmenting yellow clivia life cycles in Elementary episode Seed Money Jan. 15, 2015.

Director John Polson and writers Robert Doherty and Brian Rodenbeck bring yellow clivia into the Columbia Broadcasting System's Elementary series episode 58 as third-season episode 10. They correlate the amaryllis relative in the Amaryllidaceae family with a customized coffee grounds and shredded mackerel fertilizer created by a skirt-chaser, Clay Dubrovensky (Salar Ghajar). Only Clay's ex, Courtney Stever (Madison Riley), declares about the herbaceous evergreen, "Clay gave me this. He made it. He grew it. It's a yellow clivia."

Especially Clivia miniata ("Clive's cinnabar-red"), one of the Clivia genus's six species and natural hybrid Clivia x nimbicola ("Clive's x mist-dweller"), elicits yellow clivia botanical illustrations.

Explorer William John Burchell (July 23, 1781-March 23, 1863) and botanist John Bowie (1789?-Feb. 7, 1869) furnished Kew Garden's first clivia specimens in 1815 and 1820.

Lady Charlotte Florentia Clive (Sep. 12, 1787-July 27, 1866), bride of Hugh Percy (April 20, 1785-Feb. 11, 1847), 3rd duke of Northumberland, grew England's first clivia. As governess, she helped head Victoria (May 24, 1819-Jan. 22, 1901) through the Princess years toward Queenship (June 20, 1837-Jan. 22, 1901) of the British Empire. She inherited botanical interests from Lady Henrietta Antonia Herbert (Sep. 3, 1759-June 3, 1830), wife of Edward Clive (March 7, 1754-May 16, 1839), earl of Powis.

The South African and Swaziland native journeyed into yellow clivia botanical illustrations after Kew Garden botanist John Lindley's (Feb. 5, 1799-Nov. 1, 1865) judgments in 1828.

Clivia knows the seven species caulescens ("well-developed above-ground stem"), gardenii, miniata, mirabilis ("miraculous"), nobilis ("noble Clive") for Lady Clive's winter-spring-blooming 7- to 8-year-olds, nimbicola and robusta.

William Hooker (July 6, 1785-Aug. 12, 1865) and Robert Dyer (Sep. 21, 1900-Oct. 26, 1987) respectively labeled fall-blooming gardenii and winter-spring-blooming caulescens in 1855 and 1943. Scientists make the taxonomic citation Clivia miniata (Lindl.) Bosse from Julius Friedrich Wilhelm Bosse (Aug. 12, 1788-Oct. 25, 1864) scientifically mentioning the winter-spring-blooming species in 1859. John Rourke and Brian Murray respectively named the bush and Natal lily genus's flowering six-year-old mirabilis and fall-blooming four- to five-year-old robusta in 2000 and 2004.

Zacharias Hendrik Swanevelder, Jaco T. Truter and Abraham Erasmus van Wyk obtained Clivia x nimbicola, natural hybrid from Clivia caulescens and miniata, winter-spring-blooming four- to five-year-olds.

Yellow clivia botanical illustrations present the forest-undergrowth, low-light native with evergreen 23.62-inch- (60-centimeter-) long, straplike leaves and stalked umbels parasoling into bell-shaped 2.76-inch- (7-centimeter-) long flowers.

Each flower's three petals and three sepals base-fused into tepals above a three-cavity ovary queue six stamens with free-moving anthers and three-part stigma on long filaments. They require four dark, water-free months at 40 to 55 degrees Fahrenheit (4.44 to 12.77 degrees Celsius) in North American cold hardiness zones 9a through 11b. They seek composted, gritty, loamy, semi-acidic, semi-neutral, semi-shaded, well-drained soils pH 6-6.9; repotted-transplanted division; seed-sowing at 60.8 to 69.8 degrees Fahrenheit (16 to 21 degrees Celsius).

Yellow clivia botanical illustrations typically treat Clivia miniata var(iety) citrata ("citrus-yellow") even as Clay likeliest teased yellow clivias he "grew" or "made" from cultivars or hybrids.

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) puzzles over the Wutai Pingtung orchid cloned by murdered botanical genetic engineer Clay Dubrovensky, but a yellow clivia ultimately clues him in to skirt chaser's killer in Seed Money (Elementary tv series, season 3, episode 10): Sherlock Holmes Wiki @sherlockholmeswiki via Facebook Jan. 11, 2015, @ https://www.facebook.com/sherlockholmeswiki/photos/a.711525708891391.1073741828.711307918913170/864426196934674/

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