The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Babiana stricta
Also called Baboon Flower
Strict Bobbejaantjie is a small cormous perennial from the Cape region of South Africa, grown for its blue or purple cup-shaped flowers that appear in spring. It needs a sunny spot, good drainage, and cool dry storage in winter if grown in cold climates.
Babiana stricta, the baboon flower or blue freesia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Iridaceae, native to Cape Province, South Africa and naturalized in Australia.
There are many hybrids and cultivars with different colored flowers, usually blue or pink with white additions. In mid- to late spring, each flowering stem produces six or more blooms, each to 5 cm (2 in) across. They are grouped in an inflorescence and often have a pleasant lemon scent. The seeds are black with a hard coat, collected in round seed capsules.
Babiana stricta is tender (USDA Zones 8–10) and in temperate zones is planted in containers and stored in winter at 5 °C (41 °F).
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Babiana stricta by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
