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Fire Lily

Gloriosa superba

Photo by Dan Doucette
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Field Notes

Description:

Gloriosa are perennial herbs that climb or scramble over other plants with the aid of tendrils at the ends of their leaves and can reach 3 meters in height. They have showy flowers, distinctive because of their pronouncedly reflexed petals, like a Turk’s cap lily, ranging in colour from a greenish-yellow through yellow, orange, red and sometimes even a deep pinkish-red.

Habitat:

disturbed rainforest

Notes:

I spotted this growing along a road beside the forest in Mabira Forest Reserve, near Jinja.

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