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Kniphofia rooperi
About
Kniphofia rooperi, Rooper's red-hot poker, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asphodelaceae, native to the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Growing to 1.2 m (3.9 ft) tall, it is a robust evergreen perennial with strap-shaped leaves produced at an angle from the main stem. In autumn the stout central stems bear flattened oval flowerheads consisting of many tubular florets packed closely together. Green in bud, the flowers open to bright red and fade from the base to yellow and brown, thus giving the appearance of a red-hot poker.
- Family
- Asphodelaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Kniphofia rooperi
- Slug
- kniphofia-rooperi
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Asphodelaceae
- Genus
- Kniphofia
- Species
- rooperi
- Wikidata QID
- Q5960231
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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