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Ixia "Miss Watson Striped"
A lovely hybrid available in Australia
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Ixia viridflora var. viridflora
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.
Photo Copyright © Bill Richardson
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Ixia longituba var. bellendenii (syn. I. bellendenii)
- A lovley species
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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.
Photo Copyright © Bill Richardson
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Ixia dubia.
- dubia: dubious, doubtful
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plants grow in open, sandy places on flats, slopes, hills and on plateaux
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Inflorescence: simple or branched, 25 to 50 cm., occasionally up to 75cm., three to fifteen flowered
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flowers: with a long tube, bright, golden-yellow to orange with a dark centre and reddish on the undersides of the outer lobes
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leaves: shorter than the stem, up to 15 cm.
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flowering time: October to December
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distribution: Piketberg to the Peninsular and Tulbagh and East to Caledon.
Photo Copyright © Bill Richardson
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