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Has been flowering for months now with short lived, single flowers on long spikes, successively producing new buds: Dietes iridioides. Something like a South African walking iris, which is preparing flowering right now.



As it is not a commonly known plant I wanted to share with you.
 
Dietes grandiflora, which has more blue in it, is considered a potentially invasive species in NSW. Perhaps you saw these; or a walking iris, which come completely in blue and are similar at a first look.
 
For comparison, the first flowers of the season opened right today, Neomarica cf. northiana:


These flowers are also short lived and some 8cm across, with strongly down flexed tepals.
 

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