Haemanthus sanguineus (April fool)

Veldskoenblaar, Misryer, Brandlelie [Afrikaans]

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Haemanthus sanguineus, Greyton Commonage, Western Cape, South Africa. [image Stuart Shearer ©, from iNaturalist]
Haemanthus sanguineus, inland from Scarborough on M65, Table Mountain National Park, Western Cape, South Africa. [image Marie Viljoen ©, from iNaturalist; see also 66squarefeet.blogspot.com]	Haemanthus sanguineus, De Hoek, Groot Swartberg, Western Cape, South Africa. [image Di Turner ©, from iNaturalist]
Haemanthus sanguineus in fruit and leaf with Oxalis purpurea flowering in autumn in recently burnt lowland fynbos between Wolseley and Tulbagh, Western Cape, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]
Haemanthus sanguineus in leaf in spring after a summer fire in the Cape Peninsula mountains, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

Publications

• Mustart, P., Cowling, R. & Albertyn, J. 1997. Southern Overberg. South African Wild Flower Guide 8. Botanical Society of Southern Africa, Kirstenbosch. See p. 70.
• Manning, J. & Goldblatt, P. 1996. West Coast. South African Wild Flower Guide 7. Botanical Society of Southern Africa, Kirstenbosch. See p. 46.