Banks Peninsula, Diamond Harbour, Te Ara Crescent, A.R. Arnold's garden
Verbatim locality:
Banks Peninsula, Diamond Harbour, Te Ara Crescent, A.R. Arnold's garden
Verbatim collector:
Sykes WR 327/97
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
25-SEP-1997
Start date:
1997-09-25
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Notes:
Succulent acaulous plant. Leaves in rosettes, to about 23x4cm; convex beneath; marginal spines and surface tubercles cream. Inflorescence erect, to about 50cm high. Bracts scarious with brown veins. Pedicels orange. Perianth outer whorl about 4cm long x c.7mm diameter; tube broad cylindric, orange red, dark greenish tipped. Inner perianth whorl equals outer whorl, pale pinkish with orange-red keel. Filaments yellow; anthers just below level of perianth whorl apex. Style shortly exserted eventually, yellow. Cultivated on sunny, west-facing bank.