Watsonia Fourcadei - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds Exotic CactiWatsonia (Bugle Lily) is a genus of plants in the iris family, subfamily Crocoideae, native to South Africa. The genus is named after Sir William Watson, an 18th century British botanist. There are 52 species in southern Africa; all are perennial herbs growing from corms and producing erect spikes of showy flowers, and are adapted to a Mediterranean type climate. Native to South Africa, Watsonia species were introduced as garden ornamentals to
less often alternate or in some species whorled
The young luxuriant red-veined leaves can be eaten like spinach and the dark red
Cassini changed the specific epithet
pachycaul shrubs to (usually) herbs
Plant produces good yields of small bright red tomatoes
Triangular to tapered smooth blue- to grey-green spotted leaves
The species is also called Maiden's Quiver Tree
Protea kilimanjaro is found in the chaparral zone of Mount Kenya National Park
with single flowers at or near the crown
with greenish-yellow flowers
when two breeders – one from Bulgaria and the other from the United States – first crossed-cultivated tomatoes with wild species from Chile and the Galapagos Islands
it is harvested the same way as loose leaf lettuce
