Blandfordia grandiflora

Christmas bells
In Brisbane Water National Park
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Blandfordiaceae
Genus: Blandfordia
Species:
B. grandiflora
Binomial name
Blandfordia grandiflora
Synonyms
List
    • Blandfordia aurea Hook.f.
    • Blandfordia cunninghamii var. splendens W.Bull nom. inval., pro syn.
    • Blandfordia flammea Lindl. ex Paxton
    • Blandfordia flammea Lindl. isonym
    • Blandfordia flammea var. aurea F.M.Bailey
    • Blandfordia flammea var. aurea (Hook.f.) Har. nom. illeg.
    • Blandfordia flammea var. aurea (Hook.f.) F.M.Bailey nom. illeg.
    • Blandfordia flammea Lindl. ex Paxton var. flammea
    • Blandfordia flammea var. princeps (W.G.Sm.) Baker
    • Blandfordia grandiflora R.Br. var. grandiflora
    • Blandfordia princeps W.G.Sm.

Blandfordia grandiflora, commonly known as Christmas bells, is a flowering plant endemic to eastern Australia. It is a tufted perennial herb with narrow, channelled, linear leaves and between two and twenty large, drooping, bell-shaped flowers. The flowers are red with yellow tips, or sometimes entirely yellow. It is one of four species of Blandfordia known as Christmas bells, this one growing on the coast and nearby ranges between Sydney in New South Wales and Fraser Island in Queensland.