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Babiana pygmaea
About
Babiana pygmaea, known in English as the cream bobbejaantjie, is a perennial plant of about 10 cm (3.9 in) high that annually forms leaves and flowers from an underground corm that is assigned to the iris family. It has bowl-shaped, pale yellow flowers with six perianth lobes, purplish in its heart, emerging from a cylindrical tube, and lance-shaped, pleated and heary leafblades that are almost at a right angle with the sheaths. The species can be found in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It is called geelbobbejaantjie in Afrikaans.
- Family
- Iridaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Babiana pygmaea
- Slug
- babiana-pygmaea
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Iridaceae
- Genus
- Babiana
- Species
- pygmaea
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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