Wurmbea stricta, Lachenailia bulbifera & Cyclamen

Wurmbea stricta (syn. Onixotis stricta) small flowers on a small plant which grows in the winter rainfall area of South Africa in marshes and pools, but needs a dry summer. Flowers emerge from a bulge in the plant stem.

Lachenalia bulbifera (tbc) the less common form of bulbifera from Still Bay on the south coast of South Africa, as mentioned in G D Duncan’s THE LACHENALIA HANDBOOK, p.47. The more widespread and common form is distinctly red flowered.

A double form of the florists’ cyclamen, picked out from a batch of single-flowered plants by the member. Whether one prefers species (always single-flowered) or cultivars is, of course, a matter of taste.