This is just too weird for me to comment on again.
Two others have already written about this far more proficiently than I would have:
https://sweetgumandpines.wordpress.com/2018/11/18/abomination/
https://gardendaze.blog/2018/11/19/amaryllis-queen-of-the-forced-bulbs/
These two articles say it all. I would not have bothered to write about it too if I had not already taken the picture above. I did not read the label to learn what one of these articles said about why these bulbs were waxed. It seals in moisture, so that the bulbs do not desiccate while they bloom without water or moist media. They at least get water when forced by the conventional manner.
I suppose to many who force amaryllis bulbs, there is no problem with waxing them like this, since they are typically discarded as their forced bloom deteriorates. There is no expectation for the bulbs to survive the process to regenerate and bloom the following year.
We can at least pretend that we intend to nurture amaryllis bulbs that bloom…
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Tony Tomeo 
Awful, but not quite as bad as the dyed blue orchids I’ve seen .
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OH GADS! Those are not even visually appealing! I mean, that bright blue is SO unnatural and SO fake, and downright unsightly!
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Every time I see one of those in a supermarket display, I cringe.
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They are the most popular potted plants at the ‘certified organic Farmers’ Market in town on Sunday!
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Yes, very weird.
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Apparently, these are not even the weirdest!
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I have seen them coated in amazing multicoloured wax here. I can’t say I am impressed. It’s like the Poinsettias sold around Christmas here in shades of artificial blue and sprayed with glitter…… not my cup of tea!
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OH GADS! That too! Poinsettias are very unnatural anyway. All those unnatural colors and glitter just make it worse. It would not be so bad if they were just artificial flowers.
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I do wonder how effective the wax actually is, also. In 2020 I ordered some winter aconite from Old House Gardens because supposedly their bulbs in wax, which (again supposedly) keeps them from drying out and thus improves the odds that they will actually come up. I actually had a worse “success percentage” with those than I’d had when planting untreated ones, lol! And of course the waxed ones were more expensive.
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It seems to me that wax would promote rot, like plastic wrap does for vegetables.
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