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'''''Tritonia''''' (Flame Freesia) is a [[genus]] of [[flowering plants]] in the [[Iridaceae|iris]] family with around 28 species. They are wildly distributed mainly in [[South Africa]] and are close related to the genus [[Ixia]]. Small Bulbous plant up to 8 cm. Appears in great numbers in spring. Leaves fan-Shaped. Flowers shades of yellow, orange, and Brown, Sweet-smelling, and gives off a very strong parfume especially at night. Not grazed. The genus name is derived from the [[Latin]] word ''triton'', meaning "weathervane", and alludes to the apparently random arrangement of the stamens in some species.<ref name=Goldblatt2008>The Iris Family: Natural History & Classification (2008)</ref> {{Inc| Tritonia (name explained as follows by Ker-Gawler, its author: "Name derived from Triton, in the signification of a vane or weathercock; in allusion to the variable direction in the stamens of the different species"). Including Montbretia. Iridaceae. Blazing Star. Showy-flowered corm-bearing herbs used both as greenhouse and summer-blooming subjects. Corms or bulbs small, covered with fibrose sheaths or tunics: sts. simple or slightly branched: lvs. few, narrow-linear or broader and sword-shaped, usually falcate: spathes disposed along the rachis or the few branches, short, membranaceous, often 8-toothed: fls. 1 to a spathe, sessile; perianth-tube slender, limb concave or broadly campanulate, lobes obovate or oblong, nearly equal; ovary 3-celled: caps. membranaceous, ovoid or oblong.—About 50 species, S. Afr. Allied to Crocosmia, Acidanthera, Sparaxis, and Gladiolus. Few of them are in general cult., although many of the species have been intro. at one time or another. Those of the Montbretia class are showy hardy summer-flowering bulbs, to be handled like gladioli; or they may be left in the ground permanently if given protection of mulch in cold climates. As far north as N. Y. and Mass., however, they are usually best wintered in damp (not wet) earth indoors. The best-known kinds are T. crocosmaeflora and T. Pottsii. Most of the Latin names in catalogues belong to these, as sulphurea, tigridia, pyramidalis, grandiflora, elegans, floribunda. To gardeners, tritonias are usually known as montbretias. Garden tritonias grow 1 ft. or more tall, producing several to many showy fls. of a yellow, orange, or red color, and bearing several stiffish linear or sword-shaped lvs. Some of the following plants occur in the trade under Montbretia and have never been transferred to Tritonia. They are little known botanically and in some cases are probably hybrids or forms of T. crocosmaeflora and are here listed as Montbretias as signified by the M. before the specific name.—T. aurea, Pappe (M. aurea, Hort.). See Crocosmia aurea.—T. crispa, Ker-Gawl. Fl. whitish or pale pink, with oblong, obtuse segms. and with crisped lvs.— T. deusta, Ker-Gawl. Differs from T. crocata in having a purple-black blotch on the claw of the 3 outer segms.—M. elegans, Hort., has yellow and apricot fls.; possibly a form of T. crocosmaeflora.—T. flava, Ker-Gawl. Fls. bright yellow, the segms. oblong and the 3 lower ones with a callus in the throat: lvs. very short.—M. germanica, Hort., is offered in the trade as a form with scarlet fls., shaded with orange, 3 in. across.—T. hyalina, Baker. Differs from T. crocata in having the perianth-segms. narrowed at the lower part into a claw with hyaline margin.—T. lineata, Ker-Gawl. Fls. white or pink, with short oblong segms. and protruding anthers, of the shape of gladiolus fls.—M. Prometheus, Hort, is a horticultural form which grows up to 4 ft. high, with branching spikes of rich orange or orange-red fls., 3 1/2 in. across, their center crimson.—M. rosea. Hort., is offered in the trade as a form growing 3 ft. or more high with long arching spikes of rose or bright salmon-rose fls.—T. scillaris, Baker. Small and slender: fls. pink, with wide-flaring narrow segms., ixia-like,—T. securigera, Ker-Gawl. Lvs. short: fls. red or copper-colored, the 3 lower segms. with a callus on the claw. —T. undulata, Baker. Lvs. short and narrow, much crisped: fls. pink, with oblong equal segms. —T. viridis, Ker-Gawl. Lvs. plane or crisped, linear: fls. green, with nearly equal oblanceolate segms.—T. Wilsonii, Baker. Lvs. very narrow-linear: racemes simple or forked, lax, few-fld.: fls. white, tinged with purple, the segms. obovate-cuspidate. {{SCH}} }} ==Cultivation== {{edit-cult}} ===Propagation=== {{edit-prop}} ===Pests and diseases=== {{edit-pests}} ==Species== Species{{wp}}: ''[[Tritonia atrorubens]]'' ''[[Tritonia bakeri]]'' ''[[Tritonia chrysantha]]'' ''[[Tritonia cooperi]]'' ''[[Tritonia crispa]]'' ''[[Tritonia crocata]]'' ''[[Tritonia deusta]]'' ''[[Tritonia disticha]]'' ''[[Tritonia drakensbergensis]]'' ''[[Tritonia dubia]]'' ''[[Tritonia flabellifolia]]'' ''[[Tritonia florentiae]]'' ''[[Tritonia kamisbergensis]]'' ''[[Tritonia karooica]]'' ''[[Tritonia lancea]]'' ''[[Tritonia laxifolia]]'' ''[[Tritonia lineata]]'' ''[[Tritonia marlothii]]'' ''[[Tritonia moggii]]'' ''[[Tritonia nelsonii]]'' ''[[Tritonia pallida]]'' ''[[Tritonia parvula]]'' ''[[Tritonia securigera]]'' ''[[Tritonia squalida]]'' ''[[Tritonia tugwelliae]]'' ''[[Tritonia watermeyeri]]'' ==Gallery== {{photo-sources}} <gallery> Image:Upload.png| photo 1 Image:Upload.png| photo 2 Image:Upload.png| photo 3 </gallery> ==References== *[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963    ==External links== *{{wplink}} {{stub}} __NOTOC__

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