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Cyrtanthus ventricosus

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Monocotyledons > Order: Asparagales > Family: Amaryllidaceae > Genus: Cyrtanthus

Cyrtanthus ventricosus

Cyrtanthus ventricosus, flowering very soon after a summer fire on the Cape Peninsula mountains, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

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Cyrtanthus ventricosus, flowering very soon after a summer fire on the Bains Kloof Pass, Western Cape, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

Cyrtanthus ventricosus, flowering in front of resprouting restio stems soon after a burn above Vaalkat Ravine, Table Mountain, Cape Peninsula, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]