Tritonia Species, Chiffon Lace, Lined Tritonia, Montbretia

This is a pretty little member of the Iris family from South Africa. It was brought into Australia as a garden plant and has become natur...Read Morealised as a roadside weed in this area. I collected a few plants and established it in the nature strip in front of my garden, where they have survived many years despite my frequently mowing them by mistake. An intriguing feature of this plant is that it shares its scientific name, both genus and species, with a nudibranch mollusc or sea slug, found in the sea around England and northern Europe.