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Androcymbium capense

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Androcymbium capense

R21.00

Androcymbium capense

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SKU: AND CAP Category: Bulb Seeds
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Androcymbium capense (Colchicaceae) – men-in-a-boat (e), bobbejaanskoen (a). The plants are found growing amongst short grass and have no stem, Leaves usually 3 or 4, spreading or prostrate, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, often with wavy, hairy margin, leathery, 40 – 150 mm long, bracts broadly ovate, green above but marked with white below or mostly white not striped, 50 – 80 mm high and wider than the leaves, flowers 2 -5, tepal blade concave at base more or less as long as the tepal claws, tepal claws 8 – 10 mm long, filaments 5 – 7 mm long, styles as long as or slightly longer than ovary. Flowering time: Winter. Plants grow on clay or loam flats in eastern parts of the Little Karoo and in the Outeniquas and Tsitsikammas Mountains, which are just inland from the Indian Ocean. Date of harvest : January 2011. Locality : Kareedouw. Sowing : Sow seeds in autumn

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