Babiana Vanzyliae - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds Lettuce swollen basal caudex

swollen basal caudex

It sometimes grows in a shrubby form

like its Allium cousins

7m with rosettes of dark green leaves with white spots in wavy bands and scarlet flowers on erect slender branches

Babiana Vanzyliae - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds Lettuce swollen basal caudexBabiana is a genus of flowering plants in the Family Iridaceae composed of about 80 species. Most of these species (about 49) are found in the south western Cape of Africa, with the remainder distributed in Namaqualand and Northern Cape Province. The native range of the genus is from southern Namibia to the Eastern Cape to southern Zimbabwe, with one species from Socotra off the coast of Somalia. The genus name is derived from the Dutch word baviaan,