Description
This is a South African species flowering here (and in the norther hemisphere generally) from the late winter into early spring and beyond. It has a succession of small, bright golden-yellow conical flowers, marked with burnished gold feathering and stripes on the exterior and tiny red-brown spots deep in the throat. These sometimes manifest as much larger blotches, though is gorgeous feature is quite rare.
Easily grown if treated as one of the Mediterranean species and perfect in a small pot or pan under alpine house glass, in view of its very early flowering.
