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Potts' Montbretia Very similar to Montbretia, C. × crocosmiflora. Deeper-orange flowers. Funnel-shaped, tube narrow at base then abuptly expanding. Lobes more/less erect. Clump-forming with ribbed, strap-like leaves, cormous. Main reproduction is vegetatively by stolons. Height to 80cm. Sometimes grown in gardens, but only rarely recorded from the wild as a garden escape, discard or relic of cultivation. 
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Potts' Monbretia. September 2008
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