Re: ID requested on scarlet lawn weed

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From: Loosecanon
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2008 05:59

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"Richard Wright" <richwrigREMOVE@tig.com.au> wrote in message 
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> This plant with scarlet flowers is currently (early summer) growing in
> a Sydney park. The environment is regularly mown lawn.
>
> The plant is growing among buffalo grass, and the leaves look for all
> the world like that grass. The leaves have only ribs, so I guess it is
> a monocot.
>
> There is a hazel nut sized, but oval shaped, brown corm at the base of
> the stem.
>
> What is this plant?
>
> http://www.box.net/shared/static/ipl86k6m2j.jpg

Not sure but it looks like some of these 
http://images.google.com.au/images?hl=en&q=homoglossum&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi. I 
think these have been reclassified as Gladiolus.

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