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Wachendorfia thyrsiflora
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Wachendorfia thyrsiflora, the marsh butterfly lily, is a plant species of 0.6–2.5 m (2.0–8.2 ft) high when flowering, that has been assigned to the bloodroot family. It is a large to very large evergreen perennial plant with an underground rootstock with clusters of roots produced at the nodes. The rootstock has a distinctive red colour that results from so-called arylphenalenone pigments. The sturdy, entire and broadly sword-shaped leaves have laterally flattened and pleated leaf blades. The golden yellow flowers are set a dense cylindrical panicle on a tall firm stalk. Flowering occurs from spring until mid-summer.
- Family
- Haemodoraceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Wachendorfia thyrsiflora
- Slug
- wachendorfia-thyrsiflora
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Haemodoraceae
- Genus
- Wachendorfia
- Species
- thyrsiflora
- Wikidata QID
- Q3564940
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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