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.
Now, on its 15th anniversary, Amazon can raise a toast to being one of the largest online retailers in the world, selling everything from tubas and golf carts to dishwashers and diapers. Despite the economic recession, online retail in the U.S. grew 11% in 2009, according to a March 2010 report from Forrester Research.