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Iridaceae

Plant
Common names: Iris
Family: Iridaceae

... or black seeds that mimic fleshy seeds. Members of Iridaceae occur in a great variety of habitats. About the only place they do ... and long-proboscid flies, and even monkey-beetles. Iridaceae The species vary greatly in their ease of cultivation and in ...

17/05/2004 | John Manning | Compton Herbarium

Dietes bicolor

Plant
Common names: yellow wild iris, peacock flower (Eng.); uintjie, poublom (Afr.)
Family: Iridaceae

... attract various insectivorous birds to the garden. Iridaceae The yellow wild iris is fast growing which makes it ideal for use ... unknown. Dietes bicolo r belongs to the family Iridaceae (iris family). These plants are perennial herbs in the form of either ...

17/06/2002 | Marc Stern | Walter Sisulu NBG

The woody Iridaceae

Information Library item
Author: Goldblatt Peter   |   Date: 1992
Source: Veld & Flora 1   |   Copyright: Botanical Society

Nivenia, Klattia and Witsenia: Three genera of the Iridaceae family that have unusual habits. Goldblatt Peter Iridaceae Nivenia Klattia and Witsenia shrubs Botanical Society The woody ...

Iridaceae, Nivenia, Klattia and Witsenia, shrubs

Witsenia maura

Plant
Common names: Bokmakierie's tail (Eng.); waaiertjie (Afr.)
Family: Iridaceae

... sugarbirds that enjoy nectar with 11-13% sugar content. Iridaceae This plant is not easily cultivated, even if planted in the same ... occurs naturally. Witsenia was the first woody Iridaceae genus to be described and was named Antholyza maura by Linnaeus ...

09/06/2003 | Antonia Xaba | Harold Porter NBG

Crocosmia aurea

Plant
Common names: falling stars, valentine flower, montbretia (Eng.); valentynsblom (Afr.); umlunge, udwendweni (Zulu)
Family: Iridaceae

... are eaten by birds and bush pigs feed on the corms. Iridaceae This is a very decorative shade plant that offers a combination ... them occur in South Africa. C. aurea belongs to the Iridaceae family, which is commonly known as the iris family. Members of the ...

25/08/2003 | Mhlonishwa D Dlamini | Walter Sisulu NBG

Sparaxis grandiflora subsp. grandiflora

Plant
Common names: Cape buttercup, sparaxis (Eng.); botterblom, ferweel, ferweeltjie, fluweeltjie, perskalkoentjie, perskalossie (Afr.)
Family: Iridaceae

... relationships in subsp . grandiflora . Iridaceae Sparaxis grandiflora subsp . grandiflora is a ... Sparaxis is one of the smaller genera of the family Iridaceae. The Iris family is a large group that is well represented in ...

14/08/2006 | Caitlin Von Witt | CREW

Dietes flavida

Plant
Common names: wood iris, wild iris (Eng.)
Family: Iridaceae

... bees because of its showy and attractive flowers . Iridaceae Dietes flavida can be propagated by dividing the clumps in ... of the world. The genus Dietes , of the family Iridaceae, was described in 1866, and was first placed within the genus ...

27/02/2017 | Nomama Mei | Kirstenbosch NBG

Watsonia marginata

Plant
Common names: broad-leaf watsonia (Eng.), breëblaar-kanolpypie, rooikanolpypie, kanolpypie (Afr.)
Family: Iridaceae

... ridges. The pollinator is the honeybee. Iridaceae Watsonia marginata is a tough, low maintenance, easy plant in ... flowers resemble. Watsonia marginata belongs in the Iridaceae (iris family), a family of roughly 70 genera and 1800 species which ...

29/10/2001 | Alice Notten | Kirstenbosch NBG

Sparaxis elegans

Plant
Common names: Cape buttercup, sparaxis, pale harlequin flower (Eng.); spogfluweeltjie (Afr.)
Family: Iridaceae

... elegans and S. grandiflora have been produced. Iridaceae Sparaxis elegans plants prefer full sun and well-drained loam ... 1989; Goldblatt & Manning 2013). The genus belongs to the Iridaceae family and was described by Ker Gawler in 1802. It now includes ...

09/06/2014 | Brittany Arendse | CREW

Crocosmia paniculata

Plant
Common names: zigzag crocosmia (Eng.); waaierlelie (Afr.); khala-ea-bokone, moloke (Sesotho); undwendwi, umlunge (Zulu)
Family: Iridaceae

... for small, reddish berries, but this is not yet known. Iridaceae This species is reasonably cold-hardy, but is unlikely to ... paniculata is one of a small genus of 8 species of Iridaceae restricted to sub-Saharan Africa. DNA sequence analysis suggests that ...

24/04/2017 | John Manning | Compton Herbarium

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