Gladiolus liliaceus
Habit | bulbous
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Lifespan: | ⌛ | perennial |
Exposure: | ☼ | sun |
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Features: | ✓ | flowers |
Flower features: | ❀ | brown |
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Flowering plant in the Gladiolus genus.
Read about Gladiolus liliaceus in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Gladiolus liliaceus (Gladiolus grandis, Thunb., G. versicolor, Andr.). Corm, globose, with coverings of thick wiry fibers: st. slender, ft. or less, terete: lvs. about 3, terete, strongly ribbed, 1 ½ ft. or less long: fls. 6 or less in a lax 1-sided spike, 3 in. long, with a curved tube; segms. nearly equal, oblong-lanceolate and cuspidate, as long as the tube and twice longer than the stamens, recurved and often wavy, yellowish or creamy, tinged and striped with purple-brown, especially on the keel: caps, oblong, 1 ½ in. long; seeds winged. S. Afr. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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