Debbie from Travel With Intent blog’s One Word Sunday Challenge
Family: Colchicaceae
Common names: cup and a saucer, men-in-a-boat (Eng.); bobbejaanskoen, Rooipatrysblom , (Afr.)
Colchicum coloratum subsp. coloratum, the red cup-and-saucer and in Afrikaans the rooipatrysblom (red partridge flower), is a low-growing, stemless geophyte. It grows annual leaves and a flower from the perennial corm.
The two lance-shaped leaves lie opposite each other on the ground, the flower between them. The dark green leaves taper to acute tips, their midribs recessed. The leaf margins are minutely fringed, sometimes wavy.
Family: Colchicaceae
Common names: cup and a saucer, men-in-a-boat (Eng.); bobbejaanskoen, Rooipatrysblom (Afr.)
Rooipatrysblom
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Such a beauty! 🙂
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Thank you Agata! It is so unique!
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A beautiful plant hiding down low. And I love its common names.
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Thank you Debbie! I do too!
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What an unusual plant! I love the colour of the flower 🙂
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Thank you very much Sarah. It is very unusual. I even battled to get some information on it.
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Sjoe dis ‘n besondere plant! Dankie hiervoor, Aletta.
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Baie dankie Dina! So besonders ne?
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A marvellous choice for the prompt very well executed
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Thank you so much for the lovely comments on my post Derrick. Much appreciated.
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What a lovely plant. So delicately pretty.
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Thank you very much Jo! So totally different 😊
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Werklik iets besonders. Kom dit een een voor of in groepe? Die eerste foto waar blom oop is se groen blare lyk of hul afgesny is. Ek sien hul het puntige blare. Baie baie interessant. Hoe het jy dit raakgesien of raak geloop?
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Hulle is soms in groepe, soos die wat afgeneem is. Weet nie wie die blare so gesny het nie! Dit was in die veld tydens die blomme seisoen. Rondgeloop en raakgesien.
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Ek lag lekker op die Maandagoggend … Bobbejaanskoen (ek wonder of dit “one size fits all” is) 😁. ‘n Baie interessante blom, dankie dat jy dit wys Aletta!
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Ek het ook oor daardie naam gewonder Corna! Dis so snaaks ne! Ons het so baie unieke veldblomme in ons land!
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What a curious plant, but very pretty, too.
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It is so different from what we are used to.
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Another beautiful flower that hides away in your part of the world – lovely photographs of it!
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It is so unusual too!
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Dit is n baie interessante plant, Aletta!
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Ongelooflik ne!
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