Tritonia
Habit | bulbous
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Lifespan: | ⌛ | perennial |
Features: | ✓ | deciduous, flowers |
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Tritonia (Flame Freesia) is a genus of flowering plants in the iris family with around 28 species. They are wildly distributed mainly in South Africa and are close related to the genus Ixia. Small Bulbous plant up to 8 cm. Appears in great numbers in spring. Leaves fan-Shaped. Flowers shades of yellow, orange, and Brown, Sweet-smelling, and gives off a very strong parfume especially at night. Not grazed.
The genus name is derived from the Latin word triton, meaning "weathervane", and alludes to the apparently random arrangement of the stamens in some species.[1]
ExpandRead about Tritonia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Species
Specieswp:
Tritonia atrorubens
Tritonia bakeri
Tritonia chrysantha
Tritonia cooperi
Tritonia crispa
Tritonia crocata
Tritonia deusta
Tritonia disticha
Tritonia drakensbergensis
Tritonia dubia
Tritonia flabellifolia
Tritonia florentiae
Tritonia kamisbergensis
Tritonia karooica
Tritonia lancea
Tritonia laxifolia
Tritonia lineata
Tritonia marlothii
Tritonia moggii
Tritonia nelsonii
Tritonia pallida
Tritonia parvula
Tritonia securigera
Tritonia squalida
Tritonia tugwelliae
Tritonia watermeyeri
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
External links
- w:Tritonia. Some of the material on this page may be from Wikipedia, under the Creative Commons license.
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- ↑ The Iris Family: Natural History & Classification (2008)