Dietes sp.

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These are evergreen perennials with spreading fans of stiff, leathery sword shaped leaves. The upright clumps of leaves are held in a vertical fanlike plane and they spread on creeping rhizomes. The flowering stalks are branched and stiffly wiry, bearing irislike flowers throughout spring and summer. Grow fortnight lilies in light, dappled shade to nearly full sun.

Species and varieties:

Dietes bicolor

Dietes grandiflora

Dietes iridioides Amatola

Dietes robinsoniana

Similar plants:

• Dietes bicolor, Moraea bicolor (Evergreen Iris, Spanish Iris, African Iris)
• Dietes iridioides Amatola (African Iris, Fortnight Lily, Morea Iris)
• Dietes robinsoniana (Lord Howe Wedding Lily)