Crocosmia. Crocosmia is a small genus of flowering plants in the iris family, Iridaceae. It is native to the grasslands of the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa. They can be evergreen or deciduous perennials that grow from basal underground corms. The basal, alternate leaves are cauline and distichous.
Largest US online retailers: Amazon, Dell, Office Depot, Staples, HPDirect. Only 9 US retailers boasted yearly online sales of $1 bln and above, Internet Retailer says. Amazon continues as the Internet's largest retailer with 2004 sales of $6.
After years of stealing market share from its brick-and-mortar brethren, Amazon AMZN is finally among the 10 largest retailers according to ranking released on Tuesday by Stores Magazine. It is the first time a pure-play e-commerce company joins the very upper echelons of the hit parade.