Ferraria

Plant Characteristics

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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Ferraria in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Ferraria (Giovanni Battista Ferrari. 1584-1653, Italian Jesuit, botanical writer and collaborator with the celebrated artist Guido Reni). Iridaceae. Half-hardy bulbous plants from the Cape of Good Hope (and recent species from other parts of Africa), rarely growing more than 6 inches high. Corm large and irregular: foliage glaucous; lowest lvs. long and linear, the others ovate, clasping, successively smaller, and topped by inflated sheaths from which emerge the fugitive fls.; these have 6 triangular, spreading, crisped, petal-like lobes, marked with many dull colors, as yellow, green, purple and brown; each spathe contains several fls., and the fls. are united at the very base, connivent and cup-shaped below the spreading lobes; the fls. last only from morning to afternoon of a single day, but there is a fair succession; some are visited by carrion flies: fr. an ellipsoid membranous caps.—Only one species, F. undulata, is much known in cult., but the other 5 or 6 species of the Cape are doubtless of equal interest. This was known to pre-Linnaean authors as Flos indicus and Gladiolus indicus. The bulbs should be stored like gladiolus in a dry, warm place, away from mice. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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