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Red Dewfig
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Red Dewfig

Drosanthemum speciosum

Drosanthemum speciosum is a succulent plant in the Ice plant Family (Aizoaceae) and native to the Montague District in the south of the Cape Province of South Africa. The flowers have two whorls of staminodes: The inner whorl of about thirty are very short and almost black. The outer whorl of about sixty are long and bright orange.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 162092.