Description: Recovering wetlands, sandy soils with gravel. Seasonally wet, but also in the dry, deep sands. Tall and rigid with pink to red flowers. Leaves have a red lining. Very popular under the porcupines. Starting to flower now.
Description: Cormous geophyte to 2 m. Leaves sword-shaped. Flowers mostly orange to red, sometimes pink or purple, red or orange, tube elongate, bracts short. Capsules tapering.
Description: Cormous geophyte to 2 m. Leaves sword-shaped. Flowers mostly orange to red, sometimes pink or purple, red or orange, tube elongate, bracts short. Capsules tapering. The slopes were covered. It was a sight to behold.
Description: Cormous geophyte to 2 m. Leaves sword-shaped. Flowers mostly orange to red, sometimes pink or purple, red or orange, tube elongate, bracts short. Capsules tapering. Geore and Cradock Peaks form the backdrop
Description: Cormous geophyte to 2 m. Leaves sword-shaped. Flowers mostly orange to red, sometimes pink or purple, red or orange, tube elongate, bracts short. Capsules tapering.
Description: The name confusa according to Elsa Pooley is because it is often confused with other Kzn species with dry brown bracts, e.g. Watsonia densiflora. however, densiflora has dense inflorensces often 3 or more stems, and this doesn't, so that is why I plummed for confusa. the other two pink watsonias in the area are Pondoland endemics and Skyline reserve is just outside Pondoland. So its a bit tricky. judging from the description below, though, I think its right.
Description: Was surprized to see these leaves dead, did not realize that they were annual. Only afterwards did it dawn that this might not be annual but that the species is done for this fire cycle and would possibly only come up after the next fire. Veld about 20 years old - a patch that did not burn in the last fire.
Description: Cormous geophyte, 64cm. Leaves sword-shaped. Bracts outer: 8mm*3mm, inner: 8mm*3.5mm, pointed. Both green with red tips. Stem has upright branches. Flowers pink, tube elongate, slender, narrow lower part 15mm*2mm, narrow cylindrical upper part 15mm*6mm. Tepals 15mm*8mm. Filaments arcuate, inserted into mouth of tube, 40mm long with purple anthers. Style divided at level of anthers into 3 deeply recurved style branches. Unscented. Wet site. The flowers are usually red to purple, but sometimes pink, orange or cream.
Description: Cormous geophyte to 2 m. Leaves sword-shaped. Flowers in elongate spikes, mostly orange to red, sometimes pink or purple, tube elongate. Bracts short, inner deeply forked. Flowers well exserted from bracts. Stamens arcuate. Capsules tapering.
Description: Cormous geophyte, 50--120 cm. Leaves sword-shaped, well defined midrib. Outer bracts leathery, deeply forked for 10mm, inner bracts, smaller, completely enclosed, green. Flowers scarlet/orange, tube elongate, included or emerging shortly from bracts. Staminode-like ridges between bases of filaments. Style divides at mid anther level into long curved style branches. Capsules obovoid.
Description: Can anyone identify this tall pink watsonia found abundantly in localized spots on shallow sandy soils on sandstone platforms near the Gifberg (Van Nielsberg). A photo has been added showing the flower tube, i.e. from the side.
