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This flower open only in the afternoon. It was identified as M. fugax although it is very different from another flower in the northern Cape named the same (look at my previous pics).
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Another bulb in Niewoudtville in the northern Cape province. Moraea is one of the larger bulb genera. The iris-like flowers usually open in noon time or earlier in cloudy days.
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This is one of the commoner South african bulbs. The pic was taken at the Western Coast Narute Reserve. Although it looks like an iris it is not. The genus Moraea is close to the genus iris, probably more ancient.
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This small bulb is common throughout the Mediterranean region, but also penetrating the semid-deserts in Israel. It used to be called Gynandriris sisyrinchium, but know united with many Moraeas in South Afrcia (its origin). Each plant has normally only 2 leaves and one stem that bears several flowers. The flowers open in the afternoon for a few hours (hence its common name - afternoonn Iris). The small corms produces stolons that bears solitary bulbles in the edge.
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A small Mediterranean cormous plant.Leaves 2, arched. Flowers iris-like, violet, open only in the afternoon. It grows in diverse sunny habitats, here you can see it growing on the coast emerging out of dead shells.