Gladiolus carneus

Plant Characteristics
Habit		bulbous
Lifespan:	⌛	perennial

Scientific Names
Iridaceae >	Gladiolus >	carneus >

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Read about Gladiolus carneus in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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. ^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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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