... courtesy of Conor Eastment and the late Rob Scott Shaw.   Hessea speciosa is a small, deciduous, bulbous geophyte. It ... shorter than the tepals in H. pilosula and H. incana. Hessea speciosa is native to dry regions of southern Namibia ... almost immediately and grow during the wet winter months. Hessea Hessea plants are not often seen in gardens because ...

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... May 2014 Images: Copyright Colin Paterson-Jones   All Hessea species are small, deciduous and bulbous, reaching ... to linear. In most species the foliage is smooth, although Hessea incana and H. pilosula are minutely pilose . ... (a cataphyll) which most frequently remains below ground. Hessea breviflora is unusual, however, in having the ...

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