Kei lily or cyrtanthus sanguinens

Another beautiful flower indigenous to South Africa. Kei is the name of a large river demarcating the Eastern Cape from an area still called the Transkei (an independent homeland in apartheid days and the birthplace of Nelson Mandela). These flowers bloom in January.

Sanguine:

1. cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident: a sanguine disposition; sanguine expectations.

2. reddish; ruddy: a sanguine complexion.

 

Texture by the inimitable Leschick

 

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