Sparaxis tricolor, known by the common names Wandflower, Harlequin flower, and Sparaxis, is a bulb-forming perennial plant that grows in well-drained sunny soil.

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Sparaxis tricolor is cultivated worldwide as an ornamental plant.

Thus, Aristea ( approximately 56 species ), which has radially symmetric, mostly blue flowers, has three different pollination systems, whereas Sparaxis ( 15 species ), with both zygomorphic and secondarily radially symmetric flowers, in a variety of colors, exhibits five different pollination systems, and Gladiolus, with a similar array of floral types but over two hundred species, exploits seven different pollination systems, some of which have evolved multiple times.

Sparaxis bulbifera is the commonest in cultivation, with flowers from cream to yellow or purple.

A group of species with asymmetrical flowers marked in mauve and yellow, including Sparaxis variegata and Sparaxis villosa, was formerly treated as the genus Synnotia.

Sparaxis ( Harlequin Flower ) is a genus in the family Iridaceae with about 13 species endemic to Cape Province, South Africa.

Many species in the iris family have a great economic importance in ornamental horticulture and the cut flower industry, especially Gladiolus, Freesia, Sparaxis, Iris, Tigridia ( tiger lily ), Ixia ( corn lily ), Romulea, Neomarica, Moraea ( butterfly lily ), Nemastylis, Belamcanda, Sisyrinchium ( blue-eyed grass ), Crocosmia and Trimezia.

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* Sparaxis, 15 species from Southern Africa.

Several other genera ( e. g., Crocus, Dietes, Sparaxis, Tritonia, Watsonia ) are cultivated in gardens in both tropical and temperate areas.

Dorothea Lynde Dix proclaims that “ Perhaps no flower ( not excepting even the queenly rose ) claims to be so universal a favorite, as the viola tricolor ; none currently has been honored with so rich a variety of names, at once expressive of grace, delicacy and tenderness .” Many of these names play on the whimsical nature of love, including “ Three Faces under a Hood ,” “ Flame Flower ,” “ Jump Up and Kiss Me ,” “ Flower of Jove ,” and “ Pink of my John .”

This basic tricolor has been in use since 1963, with several changes to the green symbols in the central white stripe ; the most recent version bears the Takbir rendered in green.

Slovakia also has the same tricolor flag design as Slovenia and Russia.

Further research was published in 1960, when Don Thomes MacDougall reported that the seeds of Ipomoea tricolor were used as sacraments by certain Zapotecs, sometimes in conjunction with the seeds of Rivea corymbosa, another species which has a similar chemical composition, with lysergol instead of ergometrine.

The Neotropical disk-winged bat, Thyroptera tricolor, has suction disks on the wrists which allow it to cling to the smooth surfaces of the Heliconia leaves.

V. tricolor has a history in folk medicine of helping respiratory problems such as bronchitis, asthma, and cold symptoms.

Further research was published in 1960, when Don Thomes MacDougall reported that the seeds of Ipomoea tricolor were used as sacraments by certain Zapotecs, sometimes in conjunction with the seeds of Rivea corymbosa, another species which has a similar chemical composition, with lysergol instead of ergometrine.

The Common Bulbul has a number of subspecies ; some authorities consider P. b. dodsoni ( Dodson ’ s Bulbul ), P. b. somaliensis ( Somali Bulbul ) and P. b. tricolor ( Dark-capped Bulbul ) as separate species from the nominate P. b. barbatus.

* The original tricolor Flag of Iran, the source for the Pan-Iranian colors green, white and red adopted by many Indo-Iranian or Aryan states and peoples as their symbols.

Their coats come in a variety of colors, including white, cream, fawn, red, grizzle and tan, black and tan, and tricolor ( white, black and tan ).

* October 6 – Ethiopia uses the tricolor flag: green is for the land, yellow for gold, and red is symbolic of strength and the blood shed.

Three-coloured Indian cress ( Tropaeolum tricolor ) is another tuberous, climbing species grown for its attractive red, purple and yellow tubular flowers.

The flag was defined as a horizontal tricolor of red, white, and blue in 1848, but it was not officially adopted until 1972.

The adherents of the PRI party are known in Mexico as priísta and the party is nicknamed el tricolor because of its use of the colors green, white and red.

The national flag of the Republic of Chad (, ) is a vertical tricolor consisting ( left to right ) of a blue, a yellow and a red field.

The state flag of Moldova is a vertical tricolor of blue, yellow, and red, charged with the coat of arms of Moldova ( an eagle holding a shield charged with an aurochs ) on the center bar.

The blue, red, and yellow tricolor of Moldova is almost identical to the flag of Romania, reflecting the two countries ' national and cultural affinity.

On March 21, he paraded through the streets of Berlin to the Friedrichshain cemetery where the civil victims were buried, accompanied by some ministers and generals, all wearing the revolutionary tricolor of black, red, and gold.

As a concession made by < span lang =" fr "> Lamartine </ span > to popular aspirations, and in exchange of the maintaining of the tricolor flag, he conceded the Republican triptych of < span lang =" fr "> Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité </ span >, written on the flag, on which a red rosette was also to be added.

General Gregorio del Pilar used a tricolor banner with a blue triangle at the mast and a red stripe at the top of the flag and a black stripe at the bottom.

Around 1910, two new variants appeared: one tricolor ( red, blue and white ) with the two-headed eagle bearing the initials NI on its breast and the lion passant on the sinister, the other with the two-headed eagle above the initials NI.

The state flag and ensign ( and war flag ) is a horizontal tricolor of red, yellow and green with the Bolivian coat of arms in the center.

The national flag of Bolivia is described as a tricolor rectangle, with the colors red, yellow and green, in a ratio of 1: 1: 1, meaning three horizontal bands, with the red on the superior part occupying a third of the flag's width, yellow in the middle band using the same width, and green in the inferior part, using the last third.

The first flag design was a diagonally striped tricolor pattern of red to white to blue ( different colors but in the same pattern as the Flag of the Republic of the Congo ).

Instead it had a horizontal tricolor pattern of blue, white, and red ( from top to bottom ).

It is a vertical tricolor of green, red and yellow, defaced with a five-pointed star in its center.

The flag was banned by the Nazis in 1939, and a horizontal tricolor of white, red, and blue was enforced.

Before using the yellow, blue and red tricolor, Ecuador used white and blue flags that contained stars for each province of the country.

The flag is a horizontal tricolor, with green, white and red stripes and a blue triangle at the hoist.

The flag of Lithuania consists of a horizontal tricolor of yellow, green and red.

The birth of the yellow, green, and red tricolor occurred during a drive by other European republics to change their flags.