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Alpinia
Alpinia japonica is an unusually hardy member of this genus from China, Taiwan, and Japan. It is mostly evergreen in zone 8b and produces spikes of peppermint-striped red and white flowers in the...
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Spring Blooming Crocus Five
Crocus versicolor Ker-Gawler from southern France and northwestern Italy grows on stony and grassy places and in open woodland. Flowers are white, purple or lilac with a yellow throat and darker...
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Panax
Panax trifolius or Dwarf ginseng can be found in the eastern parts of the United States. The plant is small and produces an inflorescence not larger than an inch in diameter. It is dormant during the...
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Boophone
Boophone haemanthoides is found mainly in the west coastal areas of the Western Cape of South Africa, but extends to the Bokkeveld Plateau. These are areas with winter rainfall. It grows in sand or...
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South African Oxalis Five
Oxalis kaajagdensis. The correct name for this species is unclear. The plant was supplied to Telos Rare Bulbs under this name, but it's not a published name. A PBS member suggests that it is actually...
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Corycium
Corycium flanaganii (Bolus) Kurzweil & H.P.Linder is a species found in Lesotho and the Eastern Cape. Photos taken by Cameron McMaster at Thomas River and Tiffendell and by Mary Sue Ittner at...
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Paradisea
Paradisea lusitanica is a native to the mountains of Portugal and is taller with smaller flowers than Paradisea liliastrum. These pictures were taken in Wisley Gardens in the UK in May 2004 by Bob...
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Calochortus Species Four
Calochortus nudus, commonly known as the "Naked Star Tulip" has a 7-25 cm erect stem usually unbranched, with one to three 15-25 cm flowers (although occasionally as many as six may be found). This...
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Miersia
Miersia chilensis is from the middle regions of Chile first described in 1826 where it grows at low altitudes in shady wet conditions.Photos by Alessandro Marinello.
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Liatris
Liatris spicata A widely cultivated herbaceous hardy perennial, typically available in white and purple. Tubers bought in Winter will flower in late Summer. An unusual feature is that the flowers open...
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Haylockia
Haylockia andina identified by Kew as Zephyranthes andina starts to grow in spring and flowers just before the leaves appear. These photos by Hans Joschko show plants flowering in his garden in Germany...
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Musa
Musa velutina, commonly called velvet pink banana, is native to northeast India. It has rich pink flowers in late summer followed by fuzzy pink fruits. The fruits are dry and seedy, so not edible, but...
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Arthropodium
Arthropodium cirrhatum commonly known as a Rock Lily is native to New Zealand. It is evergreen with small white flowers in early summer. This plant grows easily in Northern California in shade, but...
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Mediterranean Ornithogalum
Ornithogalum arabicum is a widespread species native to the Mediterranean Sea area. Growing outside in Riverside, CA. Photo by Jennifer Hildebrand.
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Babiana Three
Babiana odorata L. Bolus grows in clay soils in Renosterveld in the northwest and southwest Cape. Flowers are yellow to creamy yellow with broad yellow blotches on the lower tepals and with a spicy...
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Hesperantha Three
Hesperantha erecta has creamy white flowers which open in the afternoon. Some populations are acrid musk scented. It is found on granite outcrops, granitic sands, sandveld and renosterveld in the...
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Simpliglottis
Simpliglottis valida , syn. Chiloglottis valida, or the large Bird orchid is found in moist slopes and gullies in forests in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia. It has two ground hugging green...
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Moraea Species Ten
Moraea vigilans , a relatively new species, published in 2000, is found on steep moist slopes in basalt outcrops in the high Drakensberg. The sweetly scented flowers are white, with bluish bands or...
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Holothrix
Holothrix incurva is found in damp crevices and ledges in cliffs at 1500 to 2900 meters in the summer rainfall Drakensberg Mountains in South Africa. It has yellowish hairy sepals and a hairy leaf and...
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Moraea Species Nine
Moraea tricuspidata is a late blooming Moraea that resembles Moraea bellendenii except it is a bit shorter and white. It grows on sandstone, granite, or sometimes clay slopes and is found in quite a...
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