#brunsvigia

[ruthbancroftgarden]

Brunsvigia josephinae

This very large bulb is native to winter-rainfall areas in the southwestern part of South Africa, and it is completely dormant during the summer months. In late summer, before the autumn rains bring forth its leaves, it makes an astonishingly large globe of flowers, with the purplish pedicels radiating out from atop the flower stalk, each ending in a curved red flower. After the flowers go by, the drying stalk detaches from the bulb and blows away like a tumbleweed, dispersing the seeds. Although this event takes place every year at the Ruth Bancroft Garden, it never ceases to amaze us.

-Brian

[mrlontraman]

Inktober Cont. Day Seventy Five: Brunsvigia

The seventy fifth day of Inktober 2019. The flower for today is brunsvigia, a deciduous African flower that grows in semi-arid regions and blooms in autumn. It attracts hummingbirds and other small birds. Triangle capsules resembling small kites scatter their seeds along the ground in the wind.

[wapiti3]

Description of a new sex of a very rare and very beautiful African plant 

By Heister, Lorenz, 1683-1758

Publication info Braunschweig,Gedruckt im grossen Waysenhause,1755.

BHL Collections:

New York Botanical Garden

[thelovebudllc]

Brunsvigia Lilies Bloom Three Weeks After Late Summer Rain in South Africa

If it begins to rain in the Hantam in March, and if the rain measures more than 10mm, you can almost set your timer: After a long, dry, and very hot summer, the Brunsvigias will bloom, three weeks later. You have those weeks to plan a visit to see the sight of a lifetime. In the baked red earth of this high escarpment region of South Africa’s Northern Cape Province, the Brunsvigia bulbs sense the…

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[sempergrower]

Brunsvigia radula x B marginata

[starstruck-with-love]

picking from the list if that’s okay! gale, is there a lot of pda in your relationship with kaidou? and who makes romantic gestures more?

It's completely okay!

There's not much PDA in our relationship since neither of us can really handle it for long, hehe. God knows we've uh... We've definitely tried and most we've gotten in public up until now is hand holding. As for romantic gesture, I'd have to say, probably me? I mean- I'm the romantic of the two, hehe... That doesn't stop Kaidou from doing it though, hehe.

[inannaschosen]

4 and 7!

thank you, dear!! <3 

4 is answered here!

7. Give us 3 random facts abt your s/i!

⇀ she majored in business in college, thinking it would give her a decent shot at a career despite how boring she finds the topic. spoiler: it did not. 

⇀  she is itty bitty. only 5′1. (ishtar is barely an inch above her.)

⇀ absolutely terrified of the ocean. nope, she will not get in it. she does not trust like that. other outdoor bodies of water are fine, but not the goddamn ocean. 

[inannaschosen]

i am just here to say i love seeing how much you love ishtar. amazing couple, the two of you. thank you for your time.

IM GONNA CRY THIS IS VERY SWEET THANK YOU ;______;