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Haemanthus humilis (Rabbit's Ears)
[=Haemanthus hirsutus]
Bobbejaanoor, Velskoenblaar [Afrikaans]; sekitla, tsebe ea phofu [South
Sotho]
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> Monocotyledons > Order: Asparagales
> Family: Amaryllidaceae > Genus: Haemanthus
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Haemanthus humilis ssp. humilis
flowering in early summer on a Cave Sandstone rock outcrop in the Little
Pot River valley, on Woodcliffe Farm near Maclear in the Eastern Cape
Drakensberg, South Africa. [photos
Colin Paterson-Jones ©] |
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Haemanthus humilis ssp. humilis
flowering in summer in grasslands on the Swaershoek Pass in the Eastern
Cape, South Africa. [photo
Colin Paterson-Jones ©] |
Haemanthus humilis flowering in summer in
granite rock crevices near Dullstroom, Mpumalanga, South Africa. [photo
Colin Paterson-Jones ©] |
See
KwaZulu-Natal wild flowers by Elsa Pooley p. 346
See
Wild Flowers of the Highveld by Braam van Wyk and Sasa Malan p. 190
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