Clarens, 18.11.2011
High up the trail we were delighted to see tall blue flowers
growing out of cracks in the sandstone rocks. They had sky blue flowers at the
end of a long stem, ~75 cm long.
At first I thought that they were a medium sized foxtail lily.
But later I’ve found out that they were Scilla
metalensis. Stunningly beautiful!
Later
on we saw some growing horizontally out of a cliff. Strange. If anybody has an
explanation to this, please comment!
I have now seen these flowers again in the KIrstenbosch Botanical Garden, Cape Town. Their latest name is Merwilla plumbea (Lindl.) Speta. See http://www.plantzafrica.com/plantklm/merwilplum.htm
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