Ixia Album 3

A lovely hybrid available in Australia

The flower displayed was grown from seed of the Botanical Society in South Africa. Seed to flower in one year makes it worth trying

• Viridflora: with green flowers;
• common names: green ixia, groenklossie;
• the tall, wiry stems bear numerous large, long-lasting, turquoise-green flowers with dark centres;
• plants are now rare and grow on bush-covered, rocky slopes;
• description: Inflorescence: simple, erect, up to 60 cm, usually 40 to 45 cm;
• flowers numerous, up to about fifteen, bright turquoise-green with dark purplish-maroon to black centre and bright yellows anthers.

Ixia longituba var. bellendenii (syn. I. bellendenii)

• A lovley species
• Name: bellendenii: named in honour of Bellenden a plant collector.
• An impressive, distinctive species with large flowers.
Description:
• Inflorescence: simple or branched with tall, wiry stems, six to twelve flowered, up to 6ocm Flowers: large, with a long tube, cream or cream flushed with pink. with deep pink on reverse.
• Leaves: two to three, basal,erect, up to 40 cm, shorter than the inflorescence.
• Flowering time: September/October.
• Distribution: Villiersdorp, Caledon, Bredasdorp.

Ixia dubia.

• dubia: dubious, doubtful
• plants grow in open, sandy places on flats, slopes, hills and on plateaux
• Inflorescence: simple or branched, 25 to 50 cm., occasionally up to 75cm., three to fifteen flowered
• flowers: with a long tube, bright, golden-yellow to orange with a dark centre and reddish on the undersides of the outer lobes
• leaves: shorter than the stem, up to 15 cm.
• flowering time: October to December
• distribution: Piketberg to the Peninsular and Tulbagh and East to Caledon.