Winter_bell
Blancoa
Genus of flowering plants
Blancoa is a monotypic genus of perennial herbs in the family Haemodoraceae; the single species is Blancoa canescens, commonly known as the winter bell.[2] It is endemic to the southwestern corner of Western Australia. It has nodding red to pink flowers, a clumping habit and grows to be 10 to 40 cm in height.[2] The genus is named in honour of Francisco Manuel Blanco,[3] a Spanish friar and botanist who compiled the first comprehensive flora of the Philippines.[4]