Bessera
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Bessera is a genus of plants in the Themidaceae family Also placed in: Alliaceae or Liliaceae.
A small genus of mostly herbaceous flowering plants with corms, they are perennials native to Mexico; They have flowers with petals and petaloid sepals (tepals) with compound pistils.
Bessera elegans called coral drops is cultivated and is a half-hardy Mexican herbaceous plant growing from corms with drooping terminal umbels of showy red-and-white colored flowers.