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Crocosmia crocosmiiflora
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Crocosmia × crocosmiiflora, or montbretia, is a garden hybrid of C. aurea and C. pottsii, first bred in 1880 in France by Victor Lemoine. The basionym of the hybrid is Montbretia crocosmiiflora Lemoine. In 1932 it was reclassified as C. × crocosmiiflora (Lemoine) N.E.Br., but the common name "montbretia" is still often found in horticultural literature, and is commonly used in the British Isles for orange-flowered cultivars that have naturalised, while "crocosmia" is reserved for less aggressive red-flowered cultivars.
- Family
- Iridaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Crocosmia crocosmiiflora
- Slug
- crocosmia-crocosmiiflora
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Iridaceae
- Genus
- Crocosmia
- Species
- crocosmiiflora
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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