*Dark flowers grow in the places most unwanted,
marring landscapes, telling secrets, a mark of doom.

Best not become a planter of the flowers, my child,
lest your mind become the earth from which they bloom.*

A flower known by many names, the Amaryllis are the flowers of final goodbyes. Legend has it that they appear wherever people are parting ways for good, and in ancient ruins, there have been descriptions and depictions of these flowers guiding the dead through the cycle of rebirth. They are very common sights in graveyards, but not as memorials. Rather, they are frequently planted around the graves themselves to deter animals from burrowing or scavenging due to their highly poisonous stems and bulbs. This is one of many reasons Amaryllis are referred to as the "death flower" --or the even darker moniker, "corpse flower".

Despite these sinister associations, some alchemists have found medicinal uses for this plant When added to a compound with other plants and minerals, the bulbs lose their toxicity and instead become very potent memory enhancers. In the Gaean Heartlands, it is common to cultivate these plants to process their bulbs into medicines developed to combat the effects of cognitive decline.

Because the Amaryllis are planted around graves, when their red blossoms bloomed the same color of blood classic academics thought they had drawn in the blood from the dead, further tying them to the concept of death. Additionally, as they swayed in the breeze, some thought they looked like ghosts, giving them yet another name of "ghost flower".

The Amaryllis are described in folklore to grow along the shores of The Astral Sea, to greet newly departed spirits and guide them along their path. They are also frequently included in artistic depictions of Deities associated with death, especially Beleth.

The Amaryllis bloom periodically throughout the year, typically at times when The Weave is particularly thin. Though they are harvested year-round, modern alchemists know to wait for the moonlight of a solstice, for that is when the glow of these fragile blossoms is said to indicate the height of their supernatural potency.