Saturday 25 May Cape buttercup (Sparaxis grandiflora) What’s the
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description This perennial plant is well suited to its
scientific name grandiflora, meaning ‘large-flowered’, as it
bears prominent, cup-shaped flowers, in vivid shades of white,
yellow or purple (4). The flowers, each measuring 35 to 45
millimetres across (4), are arranged in a cluster on the
unbranched stem (5). Sparaxis grandiflora produces a fan of
fairly succulent, sword-shaped leaves (4) (6), and an
underground storage organ, or corm (2). The fruit of Sparaxis
grandiflora is a capsule, within which are large, spherical,
shiny seeds (5). - Height: 10 - 25 cm (2) Cape buttercup biology
Sparaxis grandiflora is a perennial plant (4), meaning that it
lives for more than two seasons and, after an initial period,
produces flowers once a year (7). The large flowers appear
between August and September (2), and are pollinated by a range