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From Pyrolirion on Tuesday 13th of October 2026 05:03:40 PM PDT
Pyrolirion albicans Herb. was named by Herbert in 1837 for a Peruvian species illustrated and described in 1725. It is the accepted name in Plants of the World Online. Mobot's Tropicos database list these accepted names for this species, Cooperia albicans (Herb.) Sprague and Zephyranthes albicans (Herb.) Baker. Further confusing the issue of what to call this plant, Ravenna renamed it Leucothauma albicans in 2009. We are choosing to list it on the wiki under Pyrolirion albicans. Height range: 25-38 cm. Photos by Alessandro Marinello.
From Taraxia on Monday 12th of October 2026 05:27:14 PM PDT
Taraxia subacaulis (Pursh) Rydb., syn. Camissonia subacaulis (Pursh) P.H. Raven, Oenothera subacaulis (Pursh) Garrett, is found in wet meadows at 450 to 2600 m in these western states: Washington, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California. Leaves are in a rosette, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, usually entire, but sometimes irregularly pinnately-lobed and glabrous. The fruit is 4-angled, barely swollen by seeds, leathery. It flowers May to July. Leaf length: to about 22 cm. The images below were taken by Steve Matson in May 2003 in Mono County, California, and are included here under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 license.
From Mandirola on Sunday 11th of October 2026 05:26:19 PM PDT
Mandirola ichthyostoma (Gardner) Seem. ex Hanst. is the most common species of the genus in cultivation. The species epithet translates to "fish's mouth". It prefers to grow in moist conditions, and some people grow the plants with part of the root system submerged in a tray of water. It produces tiny little scaly rhizomes. Height range: 15-20 cm. The photos below were taken by Nhu Nguyen of plants grown by a member of the San Francisco Gesneriad Society.
From Lachenalia Species Six on Saturday 10th of October 2026 05:25:25 PM PDT
Lachenalia suaveolens (W.F.Barker) G.D.Duncan, syn. Lachenalia elegans var. suaveolens, is distributed from the Bokkeveld Plateau to the southern Tanqua Karoo. Growing from 16 to 40 cm with 1 or 2 lanceolate leaves, it has spreading light to deep pink to purple flowers without pedicels with dark maroon markings and recurved apices on the lower tepals with narrow, bright white margins. It flowers September to October; flowers have a carnation scent. It is allied to Lachenalia membranacea, but that species has light yellow to greenish-yellow or rarely light blue outer tepals and light greenish-yellow or white inner tepals and spreading leaves. Since Lachenalia elegans has been split into four different species, we cannot be sure, but believe that these photos are this species. The first two photos by Bob Rutemoeller and Alan Horstmann. Photos 3-5 were taken by Mary Sue Ittner near Nieuwoudtville September 2006. The last photo was taken by Cameron McMaster September 2011.
From Barberetta on Friday 9th of October 2026 05:24:08 PM PDT
Barberetta aurea Harv. is a tuberous species that grows in colonies, in forests on wet rocky forest floor, up to 1600 m and flowers November-March. It has long leaves broader at the middle and tapering gradually at both ends and yellow flowers with an orange spot at the base of the upper tepals and grows to 30 cm. The first four photos taken by Cameron McMaster at Satansnek Pass. The last photo taken by Mary Sue Ittner at the same place.
From Haemanthus Species One on Thursday 8th of October 2026 05:22:57 PM PDT
Haemanthus carneus Ker Gawl. see the Haemanthus carneus page.
Representative photos of this species from Nhu Nguyen, Byron Amerson, Mary Sue Ittner, and Cameron McMaster.
From Spathantheum on Wednesday 7th of October 2026 05:21:38 PM PDT
Spathantheum orbignyanum Schott is a rare aroid from the Andes where it is found at elevations of 2000-3000 m in Bolivia and also in Peru and Northwest Argentina. At these high elevations it experiences a cool dry temperate climate and providing it has excellent drainage it does very well in British gardens where its highly exotic foliage lends itself to jungle plantings in combination with other large-leaved foliage plants. The tuber is dormant in winter months. The unusual flower, a green spathe around many orange-yellow flowers has an effect reminiscent of an ear of corn partly shucked. Source: Tropical Britain. Height: to about 3 ft. Photos from iNaturalist were taken by Todd Boland in November in Argentina and shared under a CC BY license.
From Lachenalia Species Six on Tuesday 6th of October 2026 05:21:37 PM PDT
Lachenalia summerfieldii G.D.Duncan is known from an area north of Middelpos in the Roggeveld where it grows in seasonally moist doleritic clay that bakes hard in summer. Flowering September to October, this is a short species growing from 9 to 18 cm, with two spreading to suberect green leaves with longitudinal grooves and an erect green scape, heavily marked with dark brownish-purple blotches. The flowers are oblong-campanulate; outer tepals are light blue shading to white with brownish-maroon gibbosities, the inner tepals are white with dark brownish-maroon or yellow keels, and the stamens are shortly exserted. Photos taken by Alan Horstmann in Roggeveld in September that he believes is this species.
From Pinellia on Monday 5th of October 2026 05:21:33 PM PDT
Pinellia cordata N.E.Br. is a small plant 20 cm tall with marbled or green dentate leaves, and a small green spathe with long spadix. Giorgio Pozzi May 2007.
From Narcissus Division Six on Sunday 4th of October 2026 05:05:33 PM PDT
Narcissus 'Cha Cha' is an unusual colour for this division. Photos by David Pilling. The pot is 5" tall and wide.
