Ixia viridiflora, the Turquoise Ixia for the stunning colour of its flowers, is also called Green Ixia and indeed its scientific epithet "viridiflora" mens "green-flowered". Native to South Africa, this species has become quite rare in the wild due to habitat degradation, but luckily, thanks to its beauty, has been propagated in captivity and has become recently more available than in the past, even if it is still definitely not a common plant, especially in the UK, where I live.
I purchased this plant from borderalpines.co.uk and most of the information I found about its biology are from this link, from a website specialized in plant species from South Africa pza.sanbi.org/ixia-viridiflora
I am really pleased to have finally got the chance to see in bloom in real life this spectacular plant, and in this video I talk about its characteristics and cultivation requirements.
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