Geissorhiza radians or winecup flower, is a highly threatened species from the Iris family with fewer than 10 remaining sub-populations growing in south-western Cape Town, South Africa. The deep purple flowers with large, red centres grow in dense colonies, which makes for a spectacular flower display from mid-September, particularly around the town of Darling. Its seasonally wet lowlands habitat is, however, becoming increasingly threatened, with more than 80% of its original habitat now permanently transformed into agriculture or urban sprawl and the remaining populations threatened by encroaching invasive alien vegetation and fertilizer runoff.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of White-ring Wine-cups being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Asparagales
- Family
- Iridaceae
- Genus
- Geissorhiza
- Species
- Geissorhiza radians
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