Moraea ramosissima aka Moraea Ramosissima
Taxonomy ID: 17245
Moraea ramosissima is part of the iris family. The name of that family is Iridaceae. Kew gives its home range as part of South Africa. It grows in the southwestern and southern Cape. Kew places the plant in a subtropical climate. The Royal Horticultural Society also gives facts on its range. It states that the plant is not native to Britain. Nor is it native to Ireland.
Kew calls this plant a tuberous geophyte. This means it has a storage organ below ground. Chicago Botanic Garden lists it in a group with bulbs. The garden describes its form as mounded. In other words, the plant has a mound-like shape. Its entry gives peacock iris as the common name. The supplied records do not say how tall it grows. Nor do they say how wide a grown plant gets. Thus, they give no mature height or spread for this species.
The garden lists the flowers as yellow. Its bloom chart spans the months from March through August. The chart shows this span in three two-month blocks. This gives a broad span of months for bloom. It does not prove that each plant blooms through all those months. The text supplied for this species gives no more flower details. It does not describe the leaves or stems, either. It also gives no facts on what the fruit looks like.
The garden lists both full sun and part shade as suitable. It calls for moist soil and USDA hardiness zones 9–10. These are the clearest facts on plant care in the supplied text. The garden's profile is an archived entry, not a current one. It was captured before February 2022 and gets no more updates. The evidence does not state the soil texture the plant needs. Nor does it give a soil pH or feeding needs. It does not establish the plant's mature size. It gives no findings on pests or diseases for this species. It also gives none on whether any part is safe to eat. The same gap applies to toxicity, or whether the plant is poisonous. The supplied text does not settle either safety point.
Common names
Moraea Ramosissima, Freuchenia Bulbifera, Gladiolus Ramosus, Iris Ramosa, Moraea Bulbifera, Moraea Racemosa, Moraea Ramosa, Vieusseuxia Freuchenia, Vieusseuxia Freuchenia Publ, Vieusseuxia RamosaMore information about Moraea Ramosissima
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