Wild Iris or Fortnight Lily
by Venetia Featherstone-Witty
Title
Wild Iris or Fortnight Lily
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Venetia Featherstone-Witty
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Photograph - Photographs
Description
Dietes iridioides (African iris, Cape iris, fortnight lily, Morea iris, wild iris, dietes) is an ornamental plant in the Iridaceae family.
D. iridioides has white flowers marked with yellow and violet, with six free tepals that are not joined into a tube at their bases. These flowers last only one day. The seedpods of the plant often bend the stalks down to the ground where they have a better chance of propagating a new generation of plants.here are six species of fortnight lilies (Dietes), five from tropical Africa and one from Lord Howe Island, Australia. They were previously classified in the genus Moraea, but members of that genus are not rhizomatous. African iris (D. bicolor) is similar to fortnight lily, but has narrower leaves and pale yellow flowers with purple markings.
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March 11th, 2015
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William Tasker
Those are gorgeous, Venetia, and so is your shot of them! Your beautiful image has been featured by Wildflowers Of The World. L/F
Venetia Featherstone-Witty replied:
Thank you very much William for the feature in "Wildflowers of the World"
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