Nerine Flower | Nerine Sarniensis Guernsey Lily
Nerine sarniensis. Guernsey Lily
Found March, April and May on rocky mountain slopes in the southwestern Cape although I found this one on the side of the road next to my house.
The highly ornamental endemic, southern African genus Nerine comprises 25 species .
Excerpt taken from : http://www.plantzafrica.com/plantnop/nerinesarnien.htm
Nerine sarniensis is widely considered to be the most beautiful of all the nerines, and it has an equally colourful history.
The often-told, but unlikely tale of how boxes of bulbs of South Africa's most famous Nerine, consigned for Holland, were cast away from a sinking ship in 1659 and took root and flourished on the shores of Guernsey in the Channel Islands, has become something of a botanical legend. Whatever the truth is regarding the arrival of Nerine sarniensis on Guernsey, its bulbs have been cultivated there for more than three centuries, and continue to be grown there for their cut flowers. — in Bot River, Western Cape, South Africa.
Found March, April and May on rocky mountain slopes in the southwestern Cape although I found this one on the side of the road next to my house.
The highly ornamental endemic, southern African genus Nerine comprises 25 species .
Excerpt taken from : http://www.plantzafrica.com/plantnop/nerinesarnien.htm
Nerine sarniensis is widely considered to be the most beautiful of all the nerines, and it has an equally colourful history.
The often-told, but unlikely tale of how boxes of bulbs of South Africa's most famous Nerine, consigned for Holland, were cast away from a sinking ship in 1659 and took root and flourished on the shores of Guernsey in the Channel Islands, has become something of a botanical legend. Whatever the truth is regarding the arrival of Nerine sarniensis on Guernsey, its bulbs have been cultivated there for more than three centuries, and continue to be grown there for their cut flowers. — in Bot River, Western Cape, South Africa.
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