🌺💢Friends or foes? Polyploidy and competition in a grassland geophyte

📷 © Damian Vaz de Sousa

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#Competition #Geophyte #Polyploidy #Sympatry

Drimia/Squilla coming in to flower in Gozo. It amazes me how plants can invest such energy into flowering in the peak dry season. #geophyte #Asparagaceae #Bulb

A scape of Hippeastrum leonardii bearing two flowers pointed in opposite directions. The flowers have six petals and are star-shaped, with fine reddish streaks and speckles on a green-white background

Absolutely enamored by what I received in a plant swap as Hippeastrum leonardii, but several knowledgeable people have indicated might be H. menesesii instead.

#hippeastrum #amaryllis #geophyte #flowerbulb #gardening #rareplants #horticulture #caudex #houseplants #plantsky

A scadoxus puniceus inflorescence. Hundreds of small orange flowers are crowded together with protruding yellow stamens, giving the impression of a paintbrush. Four round, burgundy bracts surround the mass of flowers

#scadoxus puniceus

#amaryllidaceae #amaryllis #bulbplants #flowerbulbs #plantsky #horticulture #gardening #indoorplants #geophyte #caudex #flowers

Image of Amaryllis belladonna, the march lilly, endemic to the Western Cape province in South Africa.

March Lillie's (Amaryllis belladonna) popping out of the ground at the end of our hot and dry summer, one of the miracles of the Cape Fynbos ecosystem, amongst the most biodiverse areas on earth.
#photography
#botany #geophyte

Two flower spikes of Phaedranassa dubia. The flowers are tubular, red in the middle with green tips and bases.

Phaedranassa dubia from the Ecuadorean Andes

#phaedranassa #amaryllidaceae #bulbplant #flowerbulb #geophyte #plantsky #houseplants #indoorplants #rareplants #horticulture #gardening #botany #plants

Ranunculus elymaiticus
Ranunculaceae
Endemic
Fars Province, Iran
Elevation 3100m
April 2024
The smallest Iranian ranunculus with a length of less than 5 cm.
This species only grows in high elevations.
#Ranunculaceae #ranunculus #bulbs #botany #Ecology #geophyte

A flowering Veltheimia. A cluster of tubular pink flowers sits on top of a purplish stalk. In the bottom of the photo, strap-shaped, grass green leaves are visible

Veltheimia bracteata, a charismatic bulb plant from south Africa. Excels as an indoor plant in a cooler household.

#veltheimia #bulbplant #plantsky #horticulture #botany #gardening #indoorgarden #plant #houseplant #indoorplant #geophyte #flowerbulb #bulb #caudex #caudiciform

A closeup of Phaedranassa carmiolii flowers, which are in a cluster at the top of a tall green stalk. The flowers hang downwards and open towards the bottom, with the tepals flaring slightly like a trumpet. The flowers are yellow at the base, pale white in the middle and have green tips.

A photo of the entire plant of Phaedranassa carmiolii. Two tall blooming stalks arise from a pot with numerous narrow, floppy leaves

Phaedranassa viridiflora, a rare amaryllid from the Ecuadorean Andes

#phaedranassaviridiflora #phaedranassa #queenamaryllis #amaryllidaceae #geophyte #bulbplant #flowerbulb #rareplant #houseplant

Hippeastrum mandonii, a rare, stately amaryllid from high altitude yungas in the Bolivian Andes

#hippeastrummandonii #hippeastrum #amaryllidaceae #amaryllid #bulbplant #gardening #houseplants #geophyte #caudex #rareplant

Iris fosteriana Aitch. & Baker
Mashhad, Iran
April 5, 2024
Elevation: 2050m
To photograph this one and some other species, we drove around 3,800 kilometers (Shiraz to Mashhad), from the Southwest of Iran to the Northeast. Was it worth it?
#iris #iridaceae #botany #wildflowers #Ecology #geophyte

My first post on this platform! Thought I'd make it special. This is my spotted Haemanthus albiflos. Indigenous to South Africa.

#haemanthus #geophyte #bulbs #africanplants #plantobsessed

After six months of subterranean development, a recently emerged Apodolirion buchananii fruit ripens in the sun, showing the first signs of dehiscence.

Scent-mediated bee #pollination & myrmecochory in an enigmatic #geophyte with pyrogenic flowering & subterranean development of fleshy fruits

New #AJB research by Ian Kiepiel & Steven Johnson

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #Botany #SeedDispersal #Ants

When flowers take drugs: Black Flag Lily (Ferraria crispa) currently blooming in a small patch of habitat near my house in Cape Town. #fynbos #geophyte #flower

Iris-like flowers with lavender sepals. The petals have splotches of yellow and some tiger striping. The side lobes of the petals are fuzzy.

Another #geophyte for World Geophyte Day. Phalocallis coelestis flowers starting to wilt in the noonday sun.

From Brazil/Argentina/Uruguay but fully hardy in my garden. These are standing just over 5 ft tall, completely upright with no staking. 🌱

Photo of a hand cradling a lily flower that is white with deep yellow shading on the interior of the tepals.

Photo of a group of lily flowers. They are orange, pendent, with recurved, spotted tepals.

Close-up photo of a white, zygomorphic flower with a dark eye. The upright, sword-shaped leaves of this species are visible in the background.

Happy World Geophyte Day! Here are some geophytes currently flowering in our garden: 1. Lilium henryi 'Lady Alice' (1st bloom from a small bulb). 2. Lilium lancifolium (a thug!). 3. The delicately scented Gladiolus murielae. #WorldGeophyteDay #geophyte #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪

A photograph of Oxalis obliquifolia with a micrograph inset of the chromosome squashes.

🌱 From the upcoming #AJB #Polyploidy special issue 🌱

Friends without benefits: Extensive cytotype sympatry & #polyploid persistence in an African #geophyte

By Damian Vaz de Sousa, Michelle Greve & Kenneth Oberlander

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany

A plant with an inflorescence with flowers of various ages and shades of yellow and purple

A plant in a pot with bright pink flowers

A picture of a plant with an inflorescence that has yellow flowers

#Geophyte appreciation post. Flowering #Lachenalia and #Lapeirousia from the greenhouse this morning.

#artDD2022 no 71
Cyclamen flowers everywhere in #Messinia in winter, in any semi-natural habitats. Erosion reveals the enormous tuber #Geophyte
#TwitterNatureCommunity #plants #Watercolour
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the lustrous, starry bloom of Romulea columnae at Cruz de Tejeda #geophyte #iridaceae