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Christmas bells

Blandfordia

Blandfordia is a genus of flowering plants, placed in the family Blandfordiaceae of the order Asparagales of the monocots. The genus is native to eastern Australia. Plants in this genus are commonly referred to as Christmas bells due to the shape of their flowers and the timing of their flowering season in Australia. Blandfordia was named by English botanist James Edward Smith in 1804 in honour of George Spencer-Churchill, 5th Duke of Marlborough, the Marquis of...

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Christmas Bells

speciesBlandfordia nobilis

large Christmas bells

speciesBlandfordia grandiflora

Tasmanian Christmas bells

speciesBlandfordia punicea

mountain Christmas bells

speciesBlandfordia cunninghamii

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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 85483.