Plants of the Week
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Babiana sambucina subsp. sambucina
Common names: fragrant babiana (Eng.); bobbejaantjie (Afr.)
Family: Iridaceae
Babiana sambucina subsp. sambucina is an attractive, dwarf, spring-flowering bulbous plant, which is drought tolerant and water-wise....
13 / 05 / 2019 | Shireen Harris | Karoo Desert NBG
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Babiana pygmaea
Common names: yellow babiana (Eng.); geelbobbejaantjie (Afr.)
Family: Iridaceae
Despite the anomaly surrounding its specific name, the largest-flowered of all the Babiana species is a rewarding winter- and early spring-flowering cormous...
25 / 07 / 2005 | Graham Duncan | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Babiana praemorsa
Common names: stompstertbobbejaantjie, perskussing (Afr.)
Family: Iridaceae
The flowers of Babiana praemorsa are beautiful — trumpet-shaped, deep purple, with striking white marks on the lower tepals....
15 / 03 / 2010 | Colleen Rust | Hantam NBG
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Babiana noctiflora
Common names: night-scented baboon flower, night bobbejaantjie (Eng.); aandbobbejaantjie (Afr.)
Family: Iridaceae
A night-scented bobbejaantjie that is rare in fynbos, with yellow flowers that are adapted to their night-flying moth pollinators by remaining open and...
01 / 11 / 2021 | Tamanna Patel | TSP
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Babiana nervosa
Common names: baboon flower, babiana (Eng.), bobbejaantjie, bobbejaanuintjie, katjetie (Afr.)
Family: Iridaceae
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07 / 03 / 2022 | Ofentse Naanyane | Pretoria NBG
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Babiana hirsuta
Common names: red babiana (Eng.); rooibobbejaantjie, rooihanekam, strandlelie, sandlelie (Afr.)
Family: Iridaceae
Babiana hirsuta is a striking, robust, geophytic perennial that produces brilliant but unusual recurved red flowers on long flowering stems....
17 / 06 / 2013 | Werner Voigt | Karoo Desert NBG
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Babiana fragrans
Common names: fragrant blue babiana (Eng.); bobbejaantjie, bobbejaanuintjie (Afr.)
Family: Iridaceae
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26 / 11 / 2018 | Refilwe Maria Malatji | Pretoria NBG
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