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My favourite of the Hebron Farm hybrids. Vigorous and distinctive. Writing in the Journal of the Alpine Garden Society (Vol.66), Brian Mathew says: "However, this was but one of several hybrids encountered by Hilliard and Burtt during the course of field work carried out in November - December 1976. Further south, in Mt Currie District at around 1500m, they identified several apparently isolated hybrids, now achieving some popularity under clonal names that commemorate the collection site, Hebron Farm. Three have so far been named ('Hebron Farm Biscuit (now considered to represent Hypoxis parvula var. albiflora), 'Hebron Farm Red Eye' and 'Hebron Farm Pink'). The names were not coined until 1994; hitherto plants were passed around with the 'omnibus' collectors numbers (HB 7376/7377), so stocks have sometimes become jumbled. Moreover, plants under the above numbers included one or two later identified as Hypoxis parvula pure and simple. In the description he writes: "'Hebron Farm Red Eye' is ordinarily 8-12cm tall (reportedly to 15cm in some conditions) with on average five linear lanceolate leaves per 'corm'6-10cm long at flowering time and 7-8mm wide, bristly hairy overall; sometimes undulate and somewhat spirally twisted towards the acute apex (these features more obvious in sibling clones). The solitary (sometimes the scape branched to produce two flowers; this seems particularly the case with 'Hebron Farm Pink') flowers, about 27mm wide, are white, with a yellow-green reverse to the outer segments, which are also distinguished by a mucronate wisp of hairs. The inner segments are tapered towards the base ins inflexed (bent inwards) as with Rhodohypoxis baurii, though less severely so; the yellow anthers are prominent within but barely exserted from the cherry-red stained throat." |
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