Babiana rubrocyanea

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Home Plants magnoliophyta liliopsida asparagales iridaceae babiana Babiana rubrocyanea

(Jacq.) Ker Gawl.

1804

blue-and-red babiana

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Babiana rubrocyanea is a perennial geophyte of 5–15 cm (2.0–5.9 in) high, with entire, lance-shaped, hairy, pleated leaves and flowers that have a narrowly funnel-shaped tube at their base and six free tepal lobes at the top that form a wide cup that is purplish blue with a sharply defined carmine red centre. It can be found in a small area of the Western Cape province of South Africa. Flowers can be found from August to the middle of September. It is called blue-and-red babiana in English and rooibloubobbejaantjie in Afrikaans....read more on Wikipedia.

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