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With their more than passing resemblance to fishing rods when in bloom , Dieramas search nothing so much as plants out of a fantasyland fairy garden and they will be a delight to both young and older .
Here are sixteen commonly grown miscellanea with a sweetly charming habit :
1)D. pendulum
coarse Name : Fairy Bell
From the Eastern Cape .
Overhanging obtuse chunk of foliage , flower stalks are a full 1 m foresightful and the blooms ’ hues vary from pale pink to shining , brilliant pink .
2)D. pulcherrimum
Common Name : Angel ’s Fishing Rod
Found in a wide swath of land in South Africa .
It is a comparatively dense flora with good spread , behave many peak stalks of just over 1 m.
prime are a bright pink - purple .
3)D. jucundum
vulgar Name : Delightful Wandflower
From the Cape of South Africa .
It top out at about 1 m and its stalks are even wiry than the average .
It produces relatively smaller blossom but they are more flared open than most and are of a brilliant , deep pink - Battle of Magenta colour .
4)D. igneum
Common Name : Fiery Wandflower
aboriginal to a few countries in South - Eastern Africa .
At 30 - 70 cm it is one of the shorter and smaller coinage but produce foliation and flush stalks quite densely .
bloom are a bright rosy pinko .
5)D. robustum
Common Name : racy beetleweed
From South Africa and Lesotho .
Its name denote to its stalking ’ great height as they are typically between one and 1.5 m.
make a fine line with anything ‘ robust ’ are the Melville Bell which are wholly pendent and in the most coy shade of pastel pinko .
6)D. pauciflorum
mutual Name : Few - Flowered galax
aboriginal to a large swath of soil in Southern and East Africa .
The plant itself is not with child and is of a gnome eccentric , arise to only 30 - 40 cm ; the flower stalks only glint past the foliation .
Drooping bells are of a lustrous candy pink colour .
7)D. reynoldsii
Hails from the highlands of KwaZulu Natal in the Eastern Cape of South Africa .
It is a tall species , with efflorescence stalks reach about 2 1000 tall.1Dierama reynoldsii . ( n.d . ) . PlantZAfrica . Retrieved June 5 , 2023 , fromhttp://pza.sanbi.org/dierama-reynoldsii
The bloom , perfectly campana - regulate , are rare , being of a rich wine - violent tone .
8)D. erectum
Also hails from KwaZulu Natal but makes its habitats in lowlands near river and stream .
Though its flush are the ‘ normal ’ pinkish - purple colouring , it too is an rare metal money .
First , with flower stalks arise to over 1 m and up to 1.5 megabyte , it is a giant .
Next , it is virtually unique among Dierama for put up erect spikes of upward- or outward - facing flowers .
9)D. dracomontanum
Common Name : Drakensberg Wandflower
Grows in South Africa and Lesotho and most particularly in the Drakensberg Mountains .
It is a montane species .
Flower stalks do not arc as much as most other mintage , especially as they grow to only about 60 atomic number 96 .
The blooms are humble than most and are of a brilliant Salmon River pink to coral pink chromaticity .
10)D. mossii
vulgar Name : Moss ’s Wandflower
Grows in most of South Africa .
It is a dwarf species as its blossom stalks are only 40 - 50 cm .
Though they are comparatively short , they curve graciously .
Flowers are narrow bells and of a vibrant purplish - pink tone .
11)D. trichorhizum
unwashed Name : Hairy - Rooted coltsfoot
Hails from the highland of South Africa and Lesotho .
It too is a dwarf with peak chaff of only 30 - 40 centimetre , which do not arch much .
Its flowers too are narrow and bell - like , and are mauve - pink .
12)D. pulcherrimum‘Blackbird’
alike to the species with the conflict that the flowers ’ step are from a rich fuschia to a wine - purplish tone , making it an center - catch variety .
13)D. pulcherrimum‘Blackberry Bells’
standardized to the species with the difference that the flower ’ tones are from a pink - purpleness to rich , deep purpleness , cause this an eye - catch variety as well .
14)D. pulcherrimumvar.album
Common Names : White Angel ’s Fishing Rod;D.’Snowbells ’
exchangeable to the species with the difference that the peak are virgin bloodless .
Because of the rare colour it is one of the most desirable Dierama diversity .
15)D.‘Guinevere’
Produces stalks of a little over 1 m in height over the foliage of about 1 m.
The flowers are more flared open than most and are pink - tinge or pink - flushed blank .
16)D.luteoalbidum
Found only in KwaZulu Natal in the Eastern Cape of South Africa , and not in abundance.2Dierama luteoalbidum . ( n.d . ) . Kew Royal Botanic Gardens . remember March 15 , 2023 , fromhttps://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:436848-1
In fact , it is an endangered species.3Fennell , C. ( 2022 , March 28).Dierama luteoalbidum . Academia . Retrieved March 15 , 2023 , fromhttps://www.academia.edu/1563260/Dierama_luteoalbidum_Liquid_culture_provides_an_efficient_system_for_the_ex_situ_conservation_of_an_endangered_and_horticulturally_valuable_plant
It is rare because of its peril position and also because of the colour of its flowers which is a wan lemon - yellow progressing to yellowish - white .
As Dierama plants are becoming more and more appreciated in the United Kingdom , glasshouse specialize in bulb and rootstalk are developing their own hybrids and cultivar let in bicoloured ones .
