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From Brunsvigia Four on Wednesday 21st of October 2026 05:34:29 PM PDT
Brunsvigia radulosa Herb. is widespread in grassland in the summer rainfall, higher altitude regions of the Eastern Cape and the Orange Free State. It has spreading prostrate leaves and pink to red flowers in January or February. The flowers are insect pollinated. Photos taken in the Eastern Cape by Cameron McMaster. The third photo shows the prostrate leaves that appear in winter, by Uluwehi Knecht. Photo #4 by Nhu Nguyen shows seeds which already have sent out their radicles. The fifth photo shows one-month-old seedlings sown by Byron Amerson.
From Gloriosa on Tuesday 20th of October 2026 05:33:52 PM PDT
Gloriosa lindenii (Baker) J.C.Manning & Vinn., syn. Littonia lindenii Baker, is found in Tropical Africa (Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, and Zaire) where it grows up to 65 cm high. Flowers are green at the base, orange, vermillion, light red to red outside, yellow to orange inside. Photos were taken by Nicholas Wightman of a plant found growing in the hills of central Zambia where the weather is wetter and cooler generally than in Lilayi.
From Moraea Species Nine on Monday 19th of October 2026 05:08:51 PM PDT
Moraea tricolor Andrews is found on wet sandy flats in the southwestern Cape, flowering in late winter-early spring in the wild. It's best known for having bright pink flowers, but Gordon Summerfield reports that in the wild they can have a wide range of colors, including red, purple, orange, yellow, white, green, and terra cotta. The flowers are short lived but appear over a period of several weeks. They have yellow nectar guides on the outer tepals and are fragrant. Height: 15 cm. Photos by Bob Werra and Alan Horstmann.
Photos taken by Cameron McMaster near Napier in the Overberg show a form without dark maroon edging on the yellow nectar guides.
Photos below were taken by Mary Sue Ittner. The last shows the corms on a 1 cm grid.
From Toxicoscordion on Sunday 18th of October 2026 05:32:09 PM PDT
Toxicoscordion fremontii (Torrey) Rydberg (syn. Zigadenus fremontii (Torr.) Torr. ex S.Watson) is found in the California Floristic Province from southern Oregon south to Baja California. It grows in variable habitats, both coastal and inland, in grassland chaparral and mixed evergreen forests. It flowers from February to June. It is very variable in height with white showy flowers in open panicles. Height range: 40-90 cm. Photos 1 from Mary Sue Ittner and 2 Bob Rutemoeller give you an idea of how floriferous it can be and show a close-up of the flowers. Photo 3 shows the bulb on a 1 cm grid. Photos 4 & 5 from Mary Sue Ittner are habitat shots taken in northern California. Photo 4 shows a plant growing near the Pacific Ocean in Salt Point State Park on the Mendocino Sonoma Coast and photo 5 was taken in Mendocino County where they grow on the ridge in mixed evergreen forests.
The photos below were taken by Nhu Nguyen in Tilden Park, Berkeley, CA. The photos show how many seeds these plants can produce in a season.
The photos below were taken by Nhu Nguyen in Bear Valley, Colusa Co., CA in late April, 2010.
The photos below were taken from the Tilden Botanic Garden showing very floriferous plants. Photos by Nhu Nguyen.
Photos of seed and resultant seedlings of T. fremontii by Travis Owen.
From Babiana Four on Saturday 17th of October 2026 05:31:16 PM PDT
Babiana scariosa G.J.Lewis grows on dry sandstone or clay in fynbos or karroid scrub from the Bokkeveld Mountains in the northwest Cape to the western Little Karoo. It flowers from August to September. It has linear-lanceolate, pleated leaves and blue to mauve flowers with white to pale yellow markings on the lower tepals. The lower tepals are clawed and united. Height range: 10-40 cm. The first photo was taken by Alan Horstmann and the second by Cameron McMaster in the Hex River Pass.
From Tritonia Two on Friday 16th of October 2026 05:05:48 PM PDT
Tritonia crocata (L.) Ker Gawl. is one of the most commonly grown species and one that has been hybridized as well. It has orange to reddish flowers, but without prominent veins. Height: 25-50 cm. It blooms in late spring. It grows on stony clay slopes in the renosterveld in the southern Cape. The first three photos by Bob Rutemoeller and Mary Sue Ittner of California grown plants including a nice companion planting in the garden with Iris douglasiana. The last two photos were taken by Alan Horstmann.
The photos below were taken by Cameron McMaster in the Overberg.
Tritonia crocata has naturalized in the California garden of Michael Mace, where it grows at the base of a Japanese maple tree in part shade. The bulbs grow in a layer of mulch on top of the clay subsoil, and are dry in summer. The dead leaves are from Moraea aristata, which has also naturalized in the same spot. The second photo shows a white form that cropped up in the patch.
From Raphionacme on Thursday 15th of October 2026 05:29:39 PM PDT
Raphionacme velutina Schltr., syn. Raphionacme burkei N.E.Br., is native to Angola and Zimbabwe. It has a large mostly spherical and more or less flattened tuber growing above ground. The deciduous stems are vine-like and the flowers pale green star-shaped with a purple center. This species flowers in summer. The photo below was taken by Maria Botwright who asked for help in identifying it. She described it: "I picked up a plant which looks like a flattened football. It has a smooth appearance and is light beige in colour. From its center a yearly stem comes out. It bears parallel leaves along the stem, which is approx 1 foot 6 inches and bears small, insignificant, bell shaped white flowers."
From Doryanthes on Wednesday 14th of October 2026 05:28:41 PM PDT
Doryanthes palmeri W.Bull is a species from Queensland and New South Wales known as Spear Lily. Photos #1-3 below were taken by Alberto Grossi in northwest Italy, near the Italian Riviera. Height range: 6-10 ft. The first two pictures of an inflorescence and open flower were photographed at the Botanical Gardens Hanbury at La Mortola, and the third is of a whole plant with fruits at Villa Ormond, San Remo. Photos #4-5 were contributed by the UC Botanical Garden. Photo 6 was taken by Nhu Nguyen at the UC Botanical Garden.
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.
