Clivia Register Detail
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Registrant Contact
Registration ID: 332
Registrant: Clivia Society
Country: South Africa
Cultivar Information
Cultivar Name: Flava
Species: Clivia miniata
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Record: For reference (Checklist)
Description: Katherine Saunders recorded on the back of the painting she had made of the first habitat collected yellow: Yellow Imantophyllum from Eshowe, flower withering after being two days in the post bag. Most lovely, delicate, peculiar shade of yellow, not orange, but like straw colour mixed with pink, quite inimitable to me. October 8th 1893. This drawing has been sent to Kew with the bulb by Maud (her daughter). The plant was formally described by Watson of Kew Gardens as Clivia miniata var. citrina in 1899 in “The Garden” magazine. An offset of this plant was sent to family friends of Sir Charles Saunders, Mr B Nicholson in Swaziland, and it was one of these that was used by Cythna Letty to illustrate the varietal form of Clivia miniata although erroneously published as ‘var. flava‘ in “The Flowering Plants of South Africa”. The plate is also identified as Clivia miniata var. flava in the book on Katherine Saunders (1980s). See Eshowe Yellow.
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Photographer: published illustration from C. Letty drawing
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Photographer: Scan of original Cythna Letty drawing courtesy SANBI Pretoria
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