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This small bulbous species has been known by a variety of names. The name Gladiolus laxus was originally published by Carl Thunberg in 1823. Peter Goldblatt transferred the species to Anomatheca laxa in 1971; Nicholas Brown changed it to Lapeirousia laxa in 1928; Goldblatt with his colleague John Charles Manning settled on Freesia laxa in 1995. [1]
It is native to the eastern side of southern Africa, from Kenya south to South Africa, most species being found in Cape Provinces. [1] Species of the former genus Anomatheca are now included in Freesia. [1] The plants commonly known as "freesias", with fragrant funnel-shaped flowers, are cultivated hybrids of a number of Freesia species. Some ...
Iridaceae (/ ɪ r ɪ ˈ d eɪ s i ˌ aɪ,-s iː ˌ iː /) is a family of plants in order Asparagales, taking its name from the irises.It has a nearly global distribution, with 69 accepted genera with a total of c. 2500 species.
Corms can form many small cormlets called cormels, from the basal areas of the new growing corms, especially when the main growing point is damaged. These propagate corm-forming plants. A number of species replace corms every year by growing a new corm. This process starts after the shoot develops fully expanded leaves.
A printable chart to make a spore print and start identification. The spore print is the powdery deposit obtained by allowing spores of a fungal fruit body to fall onto a surface underneath. It is an important diagnostic character in most handbooks for identifying mushrooms. It shows the colour of the mushroom spores if viewed en masse.
Babiana stricta, the baboon flower [1] or blue freesia, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Iridaceae, native to Cape Province, South Africa and naturalized in Australia. [ 3 ] Description
Answer: False – people can survive about three days, on average, without water. 75. All of your taste buds are on your tongue. Answer: False – you also have taste buds in your nose and sinuses ...
Some species of dierama are cultivated as ornamental plants, such as the purple-pink-flowered D. pendulum. [12] The South African endemic D. erectum is grown for the large, pink flowers it bears on tall, erect stems. It is prone to attack by the bean weevil Urodon lilii. [14]