Category: Rarium | Sub-Category: Pots/Garden (overwinter indoors)
Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Ennealophus euryandrus (syn. Herbertia euryandra)
Family: (Iridaceae)
Tender bulb to 12″. Argentina. This Iris relative has pleated linear to lanceolate leaves. Intriguing, blue to violet flowers with three large, broadly spreading, triangular to obovate, outer tepals with white markings at the base…they look like an airplane propeller. The three smaller, inner tepals are rounded, erect and reflexed, with a spot of orange on the reflex. In the centre, the trifid, white stigma is showy and heavily clefted, with the stamens held below. The flowers only last for part of a day. Grows on humid slopes near the forest’s edge but nicely for us in a pot. 3 & T2
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