Babiana villosa

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Home Plants magnoliophyta liliopsida asparagales iridaceae babiana Babiana villosa

(Aiton) Ker Gawl.

1802

scarlet bobbejaantjie

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Babiana villosa is a species of geophyte of 10–20 cm (3.9–7.9 in) high that is assigned to the family Iridaceae. It has mauve-pink, purple or scarlet star-symmetrical wide chalice-shaped flowers with narrow tube, large, blackish or dark purple anthers, and velvety hairy, lance-shaped, laterally compressed leaves, set in a fan. Flowers occur during August and September. It grows between Malmesbury and Wellington in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It is commonly called red babiana in English and rooibobbejaantjie in Afrikaans....read more on Wikipedia.

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