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Tigridia pavonia
About
Tigridia pavonia is a species of flowering plant in the iris family Iridaceae. Common names include jockey's cap lily, Mexican shellflower, peacock flower, jaguar flower, tiger iris, and tiger flower. The Aztecs of Mexico called the flower ocēlōxōchitl meaning "jaguar flower". The Inga and Kamëntšá peoples of Colombia refer to this flower as watsimba. This summer-flowering bulbous herbaceous perennial is widespread across much of Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. It is naturalized in Ecuador and Peru.
- Family
- Iridaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Tigridia pavonia
- Slug
- tigridia-pavonia
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Iridaceae
- Genus
- Tigridia
- Species
- pavonia
- Wikidata QID
- Q3336594
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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