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Raphionacme
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...
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Doryanthes
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...
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Pyrolirion
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...
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Taraxia
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,...
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Mandirola
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...
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Barberetta
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...
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Haemanthus Species One
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.
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Spathantheum
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...
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Lachenalia Species Six
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...
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Pinellia
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.
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Narcissus Division Six
Narcissus'Cha Cha' is an unusual colour for this division. Photos by David Pilling. The pot is 5" tall and wide.
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Disporopsis
Disporopsis pernyi (Hua) Diels is an evergreen native to China and bears greenish white, axillary flowers in the spring. Sometimes known as "Perny's Evergreen Solomon's Seal" - Paul Hubert Perny...
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Geranium
Geranium �� magnificum is a hybrid of Geranium ibericum Cav. and Geranium platypetalum Fisch. & C.A.Mey. A typical vigorous cottage garden blue geranium easily passed along by digging up a chunk of...
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Miersia
Miersia chilensis Lindl. was first described in 1826. It is from the middle regions of Chile where it grows at low altitudes in shady wet conditions. Height: 20 cm. Photos by Alessandro Marinello.
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Scadoxus
Scadoxus cinnabarinus (Decne.) Friis & Nordal is widely distributed in West and Central Africa. It is evergreen. The bulb is used in combination with other plants as a poison and is also used...
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Calopogon
Calopogon pallidus Chapm. is a species found near the coast along the coastal plain from North Carolina south to Georgia and north Florida, west through the panhandle to Louisiana. As the name suggests...
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Moraea Species Five
Moraea intermedia Goldblatt & J.C. Manning described by Goldblatt and Manning in 2010 is a rare species found in open sandy places among granite outcrops in Namaqualand near Springbok. It is a...
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Eucomis Two
Eucomis autumnalis (Mill.) Chitt. from southeastern southern Africa is found on rocky, grassy slopes and has white to greenish flowers and flowers summer into fall. It grows in a variety of habitats...
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Diplarrena
Diplarrena moraea Labill. from Victoria, Tasmania, and New South Wales, has white, white and yellow, or sometimes white with yellow and some purple, honey-scented flowers. It grows en masse at times...
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Disa Two
Disa bracteata Sw. is found in moist, open, sandy places on flats and in mountains and in disturbed grassland and roadsides in the Western and Eastern Cape, South Africa. Growing from 15 to 50 cm, it...
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