Woody Plant Leaf Characteristics: Deciduous Leaf Color: Green Leaf Type: Simple Leaf Arrangement: Rosulate Leaf Shape: Linear Hairs Present: No Leaf Description: Slender, grassy leaves. Stem: Stem Is Aromatic: No; Landscape: Landscape Location: Container Landscape Theme: Butterfly Garden Children's Garden Drought Tolerant Garden Fairy Garden ...

Moraea, the Cape tulips, [2] is a genus of plants in the family Iridaceae, first described as a genus in 1758. The group is widespread across Africa, the Mediterranean, and central and southwestern Asia. [3] . The genus name is a tribute to the English botanist Robert More. [4] Moraeas have iris-like flowers. [5] .

2025年2月9日 · Moraea is a huge genus in the Iridaceae family. Most of the 220-plus species of Moraea are found in sub-Saharan Africa, with more than 120 species native to the Cape Floral Province of South Africa. Some Moraea species grow in the summer, but most are winter-growing, and many have purple or yellow flowers that look like miniature beardless irises.

2025年2月9日 · Growing from 15–30 cm high, it has a solitary, linear foliage leaf, shallowly channeled below, often slightly twisted, shorter than the stem, even half as long. It has pale blue or white flowers, with white to pale yellow nectar guides with dark blue or purple spots.

2025年3月6日 · It is a rare endemic restricted to higher elevations in the mountains to the north of Pakhuis Pass in the northern Cedarberg. It has a solitary basal leaf and purple flowers with white nectar guides edged in dark purple. The inner tepals have three lobes, the central one long and bent at an angle.

Moraea villosa is a perennial cormous geophyte which grows up to 40 cm tall. Stems are soft and hairy. Plants have a single, narrow, hairy leaf which is attached near the base of the stem. The leaf is normally as long as, or often longer than the stem. Moraea villosa bears large showy flowers with a light sweet scent.

- This clump forming species is a very sturdy landscape plant. The flowers last only two days, but there are enough buds to produce flowers for several months.

Moraea insolens is a critically endangered, cormous plant, with dazzling orange-red or rarely white- or cream-coloured, salver-shaped blooms, with prominent, deep brown markings to attract its beetle pollinators. It is very rare in cultivation, but can be …

Moraea miniata is native to southern Africa where it is widely spread in Western Cape and Northen Cape, growing mainly on clay slopes, in Renosterveld, Fynbos, Nama Karoo and Succulent Karoo, from Namaqualand to Riversdale. The climate is semi-arid with a cool, rainy winter and a hot, dry summer. Derivation of name and historical aspects.

Cut the spent blooms off of the spike to encourage rebloom on the same stalk. The strong, grey-green leaves of the African Iris (Dietes iridioides) add a nice, thick grassy texture to many situations. Great in pots as well as gardens, the African Iris is also used around water and as a feature softening rock landscaping.