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Description:
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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- Life (creatures)
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- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Archaeplastida (plants)
- Chloroplastida (green plants)
- Spermatophytes (seed plants)
- Angiosperms (Dicotyledons)
- Monocots (Monocotyledons)
- Asparagales
- Iridaceae (iris family)
- Moraea (Cape tulip)
- Moraea sisyrinchium (Barbary Nut Iris)
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- Ori Fragman-Sapir
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