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TIGRIDIA PAVONIA
TIGRIDIA PAVONIA
Very fast to flower from seed. Enormous carmine flowers spotted scarlet with pale yellow background in the middles Jul-Sep on short stems 30cm. Hardy if dry or keep in pots. Mexico and cultivated as a flower by the Aztecs over 1000 years ago.
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