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Lachenalia corymbosa

 
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Lachenalia corymbosa - lachenalia
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Common name: lachenalia
Family: Asparagaceae (Asparagus)
Distribution: Citrusdal to Gordon’s Bay, Western Cape
Habitat: Seasonally moist sandy flats
IUCN Red list: Not evaluated
National red list: Vulnerable
Life form: Geophyte (bulb, corm or tuber - seasonally dormant)
Comments: A beautiful Cape bulb with pale pink flowers and darker purple stripes which can be seen from early autumn before the majority of winter-flowering bulbs have started flowering. The flowers are strongly honey-scented and consequently attracts the honeybee to pollinate it. It is endemic to the Cape Floristic Region and occurs in colonies on seasonally moist flats from Citrusdal to Gordon’s Bay. Over the last century, half of the sites where it used to occur was lost to urbanisation and crop cultivation, and the remaining populations are severely fragmented. Sites where it is now extinct are, for example, in the Strand, Paarl and Cape Flats area. This Cape bulb continues to be threatened by ongoing urbanisation.
Links: iNaturalist.org • Pacific Bulb Society • Red List of South African Plants • SANBI PlantZAfrica

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