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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Diane Clement on October 17, 2012, 09:33:12 PM

Title: Iridaceae
Post by: Diane Clement on October 17, 2012, 09:33:12 PM

Can anyone help with the identification of this plant?   The picture was sent to me from a garden in Madeira.

Title: Re: Iridaceae
Post by: Maggi Young on October 17, 2012, 10:13:54 PM

Got a look of Moraea cedarmontana  (syn. Gynandriris cedarmontana) about it, but I'm not sure - the flower in the photo is reflexed a lot..... :-\

Title: Re: Iridaceae
Post by: David Nicholson on October 17, 2012, 10:14:44 PM

Are Iris tectorum or I wattii possibilities Diane?

Title: Re: Iridaceae
Post by: fermi de Sousa on October 18, 2012, 01:16:01 AM

It looks like Dietes iridioides,
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Dietes (http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Dietes)
cheers
fermi

Title: Re: Iridaceae
Post by: Lesley Cox on October 18, 2012, 04:19:54 AM

Quote from: David Nicholson on October 17, 2012, 10:14:44 PM

Are Iris tectorum or I wattii possibilities Diane?

No.

I'm with Fermi here, one of the not hardy Moraea species or Dietes, like the Lord Howe Is.Wedding Iris et al.

Title: Re: Iridaceae
Post by: Diane Clement on October 18, 2012, 06:52:19 AM

Quote from: fermides on October 18, 2012, 01:16:01 AM

It looks like Dietes iridioides,
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Dietes (http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Dietes)
cheers  fermi 

Thanks Fermi I think you've got it (and thanks for Maggi and David for having a go!)  I thought it didn't look quite right for Moraea, having waded through PBS Moraea pages, but my experience of South Africans in general is rather poor.
 

Title: Re: Iridaceae
Post by: Anthony Darby on October 19, 2012, 04:22:03 AM

Very similar to what's coming into flower in the car parks around us. The yellow markings seem to vary a lot. We also have Dietes grandiflora and D. bicolor.

Title: Re: Iridaceae
Post by: Ezeiza on October 20, 2012, 03:25:01 AM

Dietes iridioides. Can live on surprisingly low light levels.

Title: Re: Iridaceae
Post by: Anthony Darby on October 28, 2012, 08:27:18 AM

Here it is flowering in Greenmount Reserve (local football pitches) car park.