Boophone haemanthoides F.M.Leight. is a plant in the Amaryllidaceae family, order Asparagales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Boophone haemanthoides F.M.Leight.

Boophone haemanthoides F.M.Leight.

Boophone haemanthoides is an above-ground bulb-forming herb native to Namibia and South Africa's Cape Provinces that bears large pink flower umbels.

Genus
Boophone
Order
Asparagales
Class
Liliopsida

About Boophone haemanthoides F.M.Leight.

Boophone haemanthoides is a plant species native to Namibia and the Cape Provinces of South Africa. It is a bulb-forming herb, where more than half of its scaly bulb grows above the ground surface. This species produces a relatively large umbel of pink flowers that have narrow tepals.

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Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Liliopsida Asparagales Amaryllidaceae Boophone

More from Amaryllidaceae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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