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 has bright red flowers with yellow and black centres.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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* Sparaxis, 15 species from Southern Africa.

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.

* 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.

It is the oldest tricolor flag.

The national flag of the Netherlands is a tricolor flag.

In Scandinavia, Scotland, and German-speaking countries, the pansy ( or its wild parent Viola tricolor ) is or was known as the Stepmother ( Flower ).

The tricolor flag is almost identical to that of the Netherlands, except that it is longer and its blue stripe is a lighter shade.

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 eastern or Himalayan subspecies, L. s. tricolor, is sometimes called the Black-headed Shrike.

The dark mask through the eye is broad and covers the forehead in most subspecies and the whole head is black in subspecies tricolor and nasutus.

* T. r. tricolor is found from Sulawesi to New Guinea and the Lesser Sundas.

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.

Exceptions are oblita ( San Andrés Island ) and tricolor ( Providencia Island ), and their placement is therefore uncertain.

The Wilson's Phalarope, Phalaropus tricolor, is a small wader.

As the dominant alkaloid in the psychedelic seeds of Rivea corymbosa ( ololiuhqui ), Argyreia nervosa ( Hawaiian baby woodrose ) and Ipomoea tricolor ( morning glories, tlitliltzin ), it is often stated that ergine and / or isoergine ( its epimer ) is responsible for the psychedelic activity.

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.

There are four species of Amaranthus documented as cultivated vegetables in eastern Asia: Amaranthus cruentus, Amaranthus blitum, Amaranthus dubius, and Amaranthus tricolor.

In the early years of the 19th century, Lady Mary Elizabeth Bennet ( 1785 – 1861 ), daughter of the Lord of Tankerville, collected and cultivated every sort of Viola tricolor ( commonly, heartsease ) she could procure in her father's garden at Walton-upon-Thames, Surrey.

Long before cultivated pansies were released into the trade in 1839, V. tricolor was associated with thought in the " language of flowers ", often by its alternative name of pansy ( from the French " pensée "-thought ): hence Ophelia's often quoted line in Shakespeare's Hamlet, " There's pansies, that's for thoughts ".

Ipomoea tricolor is a species of morning glory native to the New World tropics, and widely cultivated and naturalised elsewhere.

Ornamental species can be grown for flowers ( e. g. Rubus trilobus ), for their ornamental stems ( e. g. Rubus cockburnianus ), and some as ground cover ( e. g. Rubus tricolor ).

Numerous cultivars of I. tricolor with different flower colours have been selected for use as ornamental plants ; widely-grown examples include Blue Star, Flying Saucers, Heavenly Blue, Heavenly Blue Improved, Pearly Gates, Rainbow Flash, Skylark, Summer Skies and Wedding Bells.

V. tricolor is a small plant of creeping and ramping habit, reaching at most 15 cm in height, with flowers about 1. 5 cm in diameter.

V. tricolor is one of many viola plant species containing cyclotides.

The fresh plant Viola declinata and V. tricolor contain approximately

( Among the plants are the Veronica ( plant ) | Veronica, Vinca, Viola tricolor, Bellis perennis, and Chelidonium majus.

Three separate amplifiers then drive a 21-inch tricolor tube.

The male grasps the female tightly with his forelimbs either behind her arms or in front of her back legs, or in the case of Epipedobates tricolor, around her neck.

There are two species popular as edible vegetable in Vietnam: dền đỏ-amaranthus tricolor and dền cơm or dền trắng-amaranthus viridis.

* 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.

The Dutch started to consolidate its power base through extensive military campaigns and elaborate diplomatic alliances with indigenous rulers ensuring the Dutch tricolor was firmly planted in all corners of the Archipelago.

In July 2010, New Caledonia adopted the Kanak flag, alongside the existing French tricolor, as the dual official flags of the territory.

Restoration of the monarchy was almost realized in 1873 with parliament offering the crown to Henri, comte de Chambord, but his refusal to accept the tricolor flag that had been adopted during the Revolution made the restoration of monarchy impossible for the time being.

** Henry, Count of Chambord, refuses to be crowned " King Henry V of France " until France abandons its tricolor and returns to the old Bourbon flag.

* Salsas (" sauces " in Spanish ) such as pico de gallo ( salsa tricolor ), salsa cocida, salsa verde, and salsa roja are a crucial part of many Latino cuisines in the Americas and Europe.

The Marquis de Vérac, governor of the Palace of Versailles, came to meet the king before the royal cortège entered the town, to tell him that the palace was not safe, as the Versailles national guards wearing the tricolor were occupying the Place d ' Armes.

Widespread rumors of Napoleon's return from St. Helena and Napoleon as an inspiration for patriotism, individual and collective liberties, and political mobilization manifested themselves in seditious materials, notably displaying the tricolor and rosettes, and subversive activities celebrating anniversaries of Napoleon's life and reign and disrupting royal celebrations, and demonstrated the prevailing and successful goal of the varied supporters of Napoleon to constantly destabilize the Bourbon regime.

Pansies are derived from viola species Viola tricolor hybridized with other viola species, these hybrids are referred to as Viola × wittrockiana or less commonly Viola tricolor hortensis.

In 1813 after the royalist invasion and the outbreak of the War of Independence, the Spanish symbols were abolished and the tricolor flag was formally adopted by the patriotic forces in a ceremony at the Plaza Mayor of Santiago.

This agreement reaffirmed the Spanish sovereignty over the territory of Chile, among other things, and as one of its direct consequences, the colonial flag was readopted at the expense of the tricolor.

One reason for its suppression was that it was easily confused with the flag of the Netherlands or the tricolor of revolutionary France, from which it was inspired.

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