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From Salpingostylis on Wednesday 25th of February 2026 04:52:38 PM PST
Salpingostylis coelestina Small, syn. Calydorea coelestina (W.Bartram) Goldblatt & Henrich, syn. Ixia coelestina W.Bartram, is a very rare endemic native to the piney woods of Central Florida, with a common name of Bartram's Ixia. It has a beautiful purple flower that opens in the morning and is closed a few hours later, but new ones keep opening on subsequent days. The flower is about 2 inches (5 cm) across. Height range: 15-30 cm. The first two photos were taken Sept. 2003 and one year later in July 2004 by Lee Poulsen. It was self-fertile and set seeds. The last photo shows it photographed by and blooming in the USDA zone 7 Maryland, USA garden of Jim McKenney on June 15, 2005. The flowers are fugacious: they are open early in the morning but begin to collapse by 10 A.M. on hot days. I'll bet there are people in Florida who mow this in their front lawns!
From Bongardia on Tuesday 24th of February 2026 04:18:47 PM PST
Bongardia chrysogonum (L.) Griseb. grows from 20-30 cm (8-12"). It grows from a large rounded tuber and has golden honey-scented flowers on branched, blue-green stems above spreading, pinnate, powdery grey-green leaves. Each leaflet has one or more indentations at the top and a gradually fading reddish-purple blotch. Balloon-like seed pods are produced before summer dormancy sets in. The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs). This plant is native to rocky, montane slopes and cultivated fields where summers are dry and winters are spent under snow. It is in flower in May. It needs to be kept cool and dry during dormancy and prefers a warm sunny position in summer with well-drained soil as it dislikes excessive moisture year round. The tuber is edible and is either roasted, baked or boiled. Leaves are also edible, either used raw or cooked like sorrel. Photos from Paige Woodward.
From Clivia on Monday 23rd of February 2026 04:48:08 PM PST
Clivia gardenii Hook. is an evergreen plant growing up to 60 cm. It is usually found growing in deep shade in forested areas and steeply sloping areas, cliffs and sometimes marshy spots. It comes primarily from KwaZulu-Natal, and has also been found in Mpumalanga and Swaziland. It has orange red hanging tubular flowers with greenish tips and exerted stamens and the fruit is a bright red fleshy berry. It is similar to Clivia nobilis but has fewer flowers, recurving tepal tips and leaves that taper to a pointed tip. There is much variation in plant size and flower color. Bloom time is fall into early winter. This species can tolerate fairly dry conditions. Photos by Alessandro Marinello and Hans Joschko.
From Vagaria on Sunday 22nd of February 2026 05:18:54 PM PST
Vagaria ollivieri Maire is native to Morocco. It needs a warm dry summer dormancy to initiate flowering. Photos by Alessandro Marinello.
From Tulbaghia on Saturday 21st of February 2026 04:47:41 PM PST
Tulbaghia violacea Harv. is an evergreen plant distributed from the Little Karoo to KwaZulu-Natal. Growing from 20 to 35 cm high, it flowers from summer to autumn. It is the species most often found in cultivation, both in containers and in the garden. All parts of the plant smell strongly of garlic if you brush against it. It also smells strongly on a warm day. Despite this or perhaps because the scent is not as strong as real garlic, it has the common name "society garlic". The plants are strong and can be grown in the ground. It is one of those plants that could even be grown outdoors (although marginally successful) in the Gulf Coast states. It is often used in hybridization with other Tulbaghia species. The often mauve and sometimes white flowers bloom from late summer into fall. The first photo is by Cameron McMaster. The second photo from the book Plants of the Klein Karoo courtesy of Jan and Anne Lise Schutte-Vlok. The third plant pictured by Mary Sue Ittner was grown from seed furnished by David Fenwick and is white (often called var. 'alba'). The remaining photos are by David Pilling of a plant grown from AGS seed sown in early 2009, first flowering in late Summer 2011.
Photographs by David Pilling of seed pods and seed. The coin is about an inch in diameter and the grid in photo 3 is 10 mm and in photo 4 is 1 mm. In photo 3 all the seeds came from the pod shown, but one locule of the three was empty. Fresh seed is very fleshy but soon dries out and looks shriveled as in photo 5.
Tulbaghia violacea ssp. macmasteri Vosa was described in 2010 (Herbertia 63:119). It features longer tepal segments than the common cultivated variety. The first three photos below were taken by Hans Joschko of plants grown from seeds. The last photo is from Bert Zaalberg.
From South African Romuleas on Friday 20th of February 2026 04:04:23 PM PST
Romulea aquatica G.J.Lewis is found in seasonal pools in the Western Cape. Plants are 20-60 cm high and grow from a corm with an oblique basal ridge. They have two or three leaves and white honey scented flowers with a yellow cup. Bracts have narrow membranous margins and inner bracts have wide membranous margins. Photographs by David Retief taken near Redelingshuys, Oct 2012.
From Doryanthes on Thursday 19th of February 2026 05:03:13 PM PST
Doryanthes excelsa Corrêa, known as the Gymea Lily, is a showy species found in light forest or open areas in New South Wales. It occurs in coastal sandstone outcrops along the sandstone plateaus within the Sydney region. It has a shortened rhizome and closely packed evergreen bulbs that arise from the fleshy rootstock and give rise to additional plants clustered around the mother plant. Inflorescences from D. excelsa are remarkable in that they can reach up to 8 metres in height in a mature plant and can have between one to two hundred red and very fleshy, lily like flowers up to 23 cm across on a panicle of umbels that open over a couple of months. Within the central well formed by the tepals is a sweet viscous, jelly-like fluid with which it attracts honey eaters and ensures fertilisation. Much of the above information supplied by Jim Lykos.
Photos #1-4 below were taken by Peter Thomson. The largest one with the open flower is about 4 meters high (13 feet). You can see the size of the flower by the Noisy Miner (Manorina melanocephala), which is about the size of a Thrush. Photo #5 from Jim Lykos is of a first flowered short stemmed plant from Sydney's Royal Botanical Garden site. Photo #6 was contributed by the UC Botanical Garden.
From Colchicum Species Two on Wednesday 18th of February 2026 04:55:11 PM PST
Colchicum procurrens Baker is considered a synonym for Colchicum boissieri but the flower of the bulb received as Colchicum procurrens looks different from other plants known by that name. Photo by Arnold Trachtenberg.
From Pelargonium Species Three on Tuesday 17th of February 2026 04:16:03 PM PST
Pelargonium pulverulentum Colvill ex Sweet is a geophytic species with a large woody tuber endemic to the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal where it grows in grassland. It has hairless heart shaped leaves that are shallowly lobed to deeply indented and dull yellow flowers. The top two are reflexed, unmarked or streaked purple black and the lower three yellow, blotched purple black. It flowers September to February. Photos taken in Maclear and Waainek by Cameron McMaster.
From Lilium Asiatic Section Three on Monday 16th of February 2026 04:20:42 PM PST
Lilium mackliniae Sealy was discovered by Frank Kingdon Ward on his botanical study tour in Siroi Hills of Ukhrul of Minipur, India, and named for his wife, Jean Macklin, notes Dr. A. V. Singh. Height: about 2 1/2 ft. The plant shown in photo 1 by Diane Whitehead was first thought to be a Nomocharis. This is the only plant from ten seeds sown in 1998, from the Royal Horticultural Society Lily Group. It is growing under an apple tree behind a deer fence, and flowered for the first time in mid-May, 2004 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Photo 2 of a bulb by Pontus Wallstén.
