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Home Posts tagged "Iridaceae" (Page 2)

Tag: Iridaceae

Glad to be Hairy

Flowering spike of Gladiolus hirsutus (Iridaceae)

Hair can be an excellent identifying feature in plants as well as humans (and fortunately, plants don’t go round changing their hair style). It might be the presence or absence of hairs, or even the type of hairs, whether they are long or short, simple or star-shaped, or even glandular…

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Flora August, Gladiolus, Gladiolus hirsutus, Iridaceae, scientific name, winter

Don’t worry, they don’t bite

Flowering spike of Chasmanthe aethiopica (Iridaceae)

Clearing alien vegetation from the land is important to prevent further spread, but there is also the hope that somewhere beneath the impenetrable thicket some semblance of the native flora has remained intact. In the few places where aliens do grow on our land, they are not very thick. But…

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Flora alien clearance, bird pollinated, bulb, Chasmanthe, corm, geophyte, Iridaceae, July, winter

Rose-scented gladiolus

Close-up of Gladiolus martleyi flower (Iridaceae)

Gladiolus is not the first flower that one thinks of when asked to name a flower with good scent. It is true that the large florists’ gladioli have no scent to speak of, but many of the smaller flowered species have very attractive scent. At this time of the year,…

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Flora April, autumn, bulb, geophyte, Gladiolus, Gladiolus brevifolius, Gladiolus martleyi, Iridaceae, March
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