"Steyermark's Trimezia" Trimezia Steyermarkii

A native flower to southern Mexico, Central America, Colombia, and Venezuela.

Although it may look at first sight as an orchid (as it belongs to the same Order of Asparagales) is actually a specie from the Iridaceae Family, named after the Greek goddess Iris, who carried messages from the Olympus to Earth along a rainbow. Its genus derives from the Greek and refers to its three greater tepals, and from Ph.D Julian Alfred Steyermark, the Venezuelan-American botanist who collected over 130,000 plants in twenty-six countries, earning him an entry into the Guinness Book of World Records.

Its relative "Oceloxochitl" Tigridia Pavonia is a highly esteemed flower in central Mexico, translated from Nahuatl as "Ocelot's flower".

Ref:

https://enciclovida.mx/especies/161845

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimezia_steyermarkii

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Alfred_Steyermark

https://enciclovida.mx/especies/161324-tigridia-pavonia

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