Gladiolus Undulatus - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds Nymphaea

Gladiolus Undulatus - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds NymphaeaGladiolus (from Latin, the diminutive of gladius, a sword) is a genus of perennial bulbous flowering plants in the iris family. Sometimes called the sword lily, the most widely used English common name for these plants is simply gladiolus (plural gladioli, gladioluses or sometimes gladiolas). The genus is distributed in Mediterranean Europe, Asia, Tropical Africa and South Africa. The centre of diversity of the genus is located in the Cape Floristic

An annual variety for Spring through Summer

and 'Kachnar' in India and Pakistan

which are responsible for their own flavour and slow burn

Species are centered in the south-western Cape of South Africa but extend north into Namaqualand and east into the summer rainfall areas of eastern South Africa

and it's certain to garner compliments all season long

white/pink flowers in Summer

erect perennial

A cultivar of the habanero

unbuttressed bole and the bark is smooth and grey or cinnamon-coloured

it is dioecious

the edges of these scales are razor sharp

an 18th century British botanist