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| | #REDIRECT [[Gladiolus dalenii]] | | #REDIRECT [[Gladiolus dalenii]] |
| − | Gladiolus psittacinus, Hook. (G. natalensis, Reinw. Watsonia natalensis, Eckl.). Corm very large, flattened- globose: st. 3 ft. or more, stout: lvs. about 4, rather rigid, 1-2 ft. long and 1-2 in. broad: fls. many and large, with a curved tube nearly or quite 2 in. long, in general effect rich yellow but thickly grained and overlaid with red (particularly about the margins of the segms.); upper segms. obovate and hooded, dark crimson, the lower much smaller and reflexing, red and yellow mixed. S. Afr., away from the coast. B.M. 3032. B.R. 1442. L. B. C. 18:1756.—One of the leading parents of garden gladioli.
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