Fairy Wings
by Judy Vincent
Title
Fairy Wings
Artist
Judy Vincent
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Dietes iridioides (African iris, Cape iris, wild iris) is an ornamental plant in the Iridaceae family. This plant is occasionally called the "Fairy Iris" because the fragile white petals not only look like fairy wings, but also have a tendency to disappear mysteriously overnight! (In this image you can clearly see the "wings")
D. iridioides has white flowers marked with yellow and violet, with six free tepals that are not joined into a tube at their bases. These flowers last only one day. The seedpods of the plant often bend the stalks down to the ground where they have a better chance of propagating a new generation of plants.
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January 18th, 2017
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