APHOTOFLORA

An online educational resource and botanical image library dedicated to
the flora; wildflowers, trees, shrubs, ferns, liverworts and mosses, found in
South-West England, mostly around Devon and Cornwall, by David Fenwick.

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Golden Swan
Crocosmia masoniorum
- flower 1

Golden Swan
Crocosmia masoniorum
- flower 2

Images taken of cultivated plants that were once part of the NCCPG National Collection of Crocosmia with Chasmanthe at The African Garden, Estover, Plymouth, Devon.

The plants featured in the images were raised from seed imported from Satan's Nek, South Africa. This species is rare in the wild, it was introduced into cultivation in the UK in the 1950s. It is unlikely for the species to be found growing in anything other than gardens Britain. Any escapes in the UK will most probably be represented by the many commercially raised hybrids of this species or seedlings of them. A likely candidate is the vigorous Crocosmia x 'Marcotijn'.

Like C. paniculata this species has pleated leaves; the leaves of C. x crocosmiiflora, C. aurea and C. pottsii are smooth.

David Fenwick (BSBI Referee for Crocosmia)

For more images of South and Southern African bulbs visit The African Garden website.

The main objective of this website is in furthering environmental awareness and education through the medium of photography. To increase awareness and access to the flora of the region and help

people find and identify it. Sometimes the difference between species is obvious but a few species may only be determined by observing microscopic differences that are characteristic to any one species.

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