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Wonderful flower spikes, the lower flowers are yellow, heavily shaded with green, but as you go up the flower spike the amount of red increases.
At the top are a series of buds that never develop fully, and can be bright orange/red.
The species L. aloides was originally described by J. F. Jacquin as L. tricolor in 1780 but delays in publishing the manuscript meant that the
species epithet "aloides" was published by Linnaeus beforehand, therefore the species is properly known as L. aloides.
This raises the question of identity over the plant called 'Tricolor'. In cultivation it seems to be nothing more than part of the ordinary variation
to be found in L. aloides. Let's be charitable and take the view that it is a cherished and much valued selection of the species made by a person or persons unknown
in the distant (pre 1959) past and continue to glory in the wonder of the plant (and not see it as a steaming pile of nomenclatural confusion).
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