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Wurmbea elatior

Common names: pepper-and-salt flower (Eng.); sout-en-peper-blommetjie (Afr.); khahlana-ea-loti (seSotho)

Family: Colchicaceae

... plant with its corm buried deep underground. Wurmbea elatior has 3 narrow leaves that partly sheath the ... at altitudes of 1 200-3 000 m. Known pollinators for Wurmbea elatior are mostly flies, which are dung fly, flesh ... insect pollinators which are associated with animal dung. Wurmbea Wurmbea elatior has not yet been propagated in ...

12 / 06 / 2023 | Sibahle Gumede | Millennium Seed Bank Partnership

Common names: Spider lily (Eng.), Swartkoppie (Afr.)

Family: Colchicaceae

... Project Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden June 2011 Wurmbea marginata is a cormous (corm = a tuberous bulb-like ... are smaller and curved backwards. There are about 39 Wurmbea species in Africa and Australia. They occur in both ... rainfall areas. About 13 species occur in the Cape area. Wurmbea marginata occurs mostly on clay or loam flats in the ...

13 / 06 / 2011 | Olivia Tyambetyu | Millennium Seed Bank Partnership

Common names: vleiblommetjie (Afr.)

Family: Colchicaceae

... National Botanical Garden June 2005 (Name updated 2008) Wurmbea stricta is a deciduous, winter-growing geophyte ... in attractive erect, narrowly egg-shaped capsules. Wurmbea stricta, together with Wurmbea punctata, differ from most other wurmbea species by ...

27 / 06 / 2005 | Graham Duncan | Kirstenbosch NBG

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Wurmbea elatior

Wurmbea marginata

Wurmbea stricta