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Scadoxus puniceus (Blood Lily, Snake lily)

[= Haemanthus magnificus, Haemanthus natalensis]

Rooikwas, Seerooglelie, Skeerkwas [Afrikaans]; idumbe-lika-nhloyile, idumbelentaba, isiphompo, umgola [Zulu]

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: Scadoxus

Scadoxus puniceus (Blood Lily, Snake lily) Scadoxus puniceus (Blood Lily, Snake lily)

Scadoxus puniceus, Tsitsikamma Hiking Trail, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [photos H.G. Robertson, Iziko ©]

Scadoxus puniceus (Blood Lily, Snake lily)
Scadoxus puniceus (Blood Lily, Snake lily)

Scadoxus puniceus atypically growing as an epiphyte and flowering in summer high above the ground in the fork of a very old Outeniqua Yellowwood (Afrocarpus falcatus), the Big Tree in the Woodville Forest along the Garden Route, Western Cape, South Africa. [photos Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

 

See KwaZulu-Natal Wildflowers by Elsa Pooley p. 36; Wild Flowers of the Highveld by Braam van Wyk and Sasa Malan p. 190; Creative gardening with indigenous plants by Pitta Joffe p. 262.

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