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| latin_name = ''LATINNAME''  <!--- replace LATINNAME with the actual latin name -->

|familia=Iridaceae

| common_names =     <!--- if multiple, list all, if none, leave blank -->

|genus=Gladiolus

| growth_habit = ?  <!--- tree, shrub, herbaceous, vine, etc -->

|species=carneus

|habit=bulbous

| wide =     <!--- 65cm (25 inches) -->

|lifespan=perennial

|exposure=sun

|features=flowers

| lifespan =     <!--- perennial, annual, etc -->

|flowers=pink

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|Temp Metric=°F

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| features =     <!--- flowers, fragrance, fruit, naturalizes, invasive -->

|image=Gladiolus carneus KirstenboshBotGard09292010C.jpg

| hardiness =     <!--- frost sensitive, hardy, 5°C (40°F), etc -->

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| bloom =     <!--- seasons which the plant blooms, if it is grown for its flowers -->

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| sunset_zones =    <!--- eg. 8, 9, 12-24, not available -->

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Gladiolus carneus (syn. Gladiolus blandus. Ait.). Corm medium size, globose: st. 2 ft. or less tall, sometimes branched: lvs. usually 4, 1 ft. or less long and ½ - ¾ in. wide: fls. few, white and red-tinged, the curved tube 1 ½ in- long; segms. all oblong or oblong-spatulate and flaring or recurved, some of them red-marked in the throat; stamens more than half length of limb. S. Afr., coast region; variable. B.M. 625. Sometimes pure white. B.M. 648, G. albidus, Jacq.; pink or flesh-color, B.M. 645; G. carneus, Delar.; segms. white, with many pink markings, B. M. 3680, G. mortonius, Herb.; taller, with longer lvs. and perianth-tube, G. excelsus, Sweet; pink fls. with red blotches on 3 lower segms., var. hibbertii, Hort. G. blandus is an old garden plant.

Gladiolus carneus (syn. Gladiolus blandus. Ait.). Corm medium size, globose: st. 2 ft. or less tall, sometimes branched: lvs. usually 4, 1 ft. or less long and ½ - ¾ in. wide: fls. few, white and red-tinged, the curved tube 1 ½ in- long; segms. all oblong or oblong-spatulate and flaring or recurved, some of them red-marked in the throat; stamens more than half length of limb. S. Afr., coast region; variable. B.M. 625. Sometimes pure white. B.M. 648, G. albidus, Jacq.; pink or flesh-color, B.M. 645; G. carneus, Delar.; segms. white, with many pink markings, B. M. 3680, G. mortonius, Herb.; taller, with longer lvs. and perianth-tube, G. excelsus, Sweet; pink fls. with red blotches on 3 lower segms., var. hibbertii, Hort. G. blandus is an old garden plant.

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