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A rich pink flowered plant with broad tepals. I bought it from Edrom Nursery.
I haven't found out much about the cultivar but a paper in Austral Ecology (March 2024) points out that tetraploid Rhodohypoxis occur in wild populations (it covers a lot more ground than that
and was specifically talking about R. baurii platypetala).
It says: "Twelve populations were found to contain only diploids, four populations contained only tetraploids, and only one population was ‘mixed ploidy’ (both diploid and triploid individuals present). There was an overlap in the altitudinal range of diploid and tetraploid populations, but diploids reached the highest altitudes recorded for the current study. We also found that R. baurii var. platypetala occurs in acidic soils and that tetraploids occurred in soils with marginally higher nitrogen and phosphorus than soils where diploids occur. Tetraploids generally occurred in warmer conditions, in drier soils, and possessed broader leaves and larger flowers than diploids. |
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