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A South African bulb with very pretty flowers (briefly in mid-summer) but always seems to be
a large clump of dying leaves. Previously recorded as a form of T. linearis but this is a synonym of T. gladiolaris. I got it from Desirable Plants and the label reads: "Winter growing form of this variable sp, lovely large cream flowers in May. 30cm. Sun, good drainage, suits pots. Smr dormant corms." The Pacific Bulb Society says: "Tritonia gladiolaris (Lam.) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning, syn. Tritonia lineata (Salisb.) Ker Gawl., grows in grassland in the southeastern Cape, about 60 cm high. It has creamy white or pale yellow or orange funnel shaped flowers with dark veins. This plant copes with a Mediterranean growing cycle even though it is a summer rainfall species, but I wouldn't say it thrives. When grown with regular summer water it expands rapidly. When grown with a dry summer, it merely survives or dies." |
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| 7th May 2009 | ||
