Iridaceae FAMILY
Lapeirousia bainesii
Lapeirousia bainesii
Edibility
3/5
Medicinal
0/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Cultivation Details
HabitCorm
Growth—
The flowers open in the late afternoon and last through the night and into the following day, then they wilt rapidly in the dry, hot daylight conditions. The freshly opened flowers have a strong sweet and pleasant fragrance and produce abundant nectar[1].
Propagation
Seed - Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Lapeirousia+bainesii>
Pollinators
Hawkmoths
References
- [1]Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden Vol. 77 — Missouri Botanical Garden Press; Missouri. · 1990 · http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org · ISBN 0026-6493 ↩︎A botanical journal containing various articles, including a monograph of the tropical African species of Lapeirousia. It can be downloaded from the internet.
- [2]Flora Zambesiaca — http://apps.kew.org/efloras/fz/intro.html ↩︎An excellent online flora of plants from the Zambezi River basin. It lists a number of the plant uses as well as the habitats and botanical descriptions of the plants.
- [3]African Flowering Plants Database — Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. · http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php ↩︎Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map.
- [4]Gemsbok Bean and Kalahari Truffle — Leffers A. · Gamsberg MacMillan; Namibia. · 2003 · ISBN 99916-0-491-X ↩︎Details of the traditional uses of over 200 species of plants in northeastern Namibia. Written for the non-expert, there is usually at least one photograph with each plant entry.