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Native Flowers of New Zealand/Plate 23

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1546703Native Flowers of New Zealand — Libertia ixioidesGeorgina Burne Hetley



Not uncommon throughout the whole of the Islands. Growing in damp, swampy places. Leaves sometimes stiff, rigid, and of a bright yellow colour, and also grassy, as in the plate. Flowers very tender and fugacious, of the purest white. (Cheeseman). It flowers in November and December. Thames.


Libertia exioides Leighton Brothers Lith
PLATE 23