Tritonia crocata 'Tangerine'
Archive entry 19.05.13
Archive entry 03.05.15
11th May 2013
A winter growing bulb from the southen Cape in South Africa. The typical form has glowing scarlet flowers
but it has been widely hybridised and there are cultivars in a range of colours. This tangerine form
also has distinctly zygomorphic flowers which suggest that it might be a hybrid of T. crocata
that has entirely bypassed any involvement of T.crocata in the same way that a vegetarian beefburger
has bypassed the cow. Indeed, it looks exactly like my plants of T. securigera.
It produces sheaves of tenacious leaves that die off in spring and 'thatch' the pots.