Gladiolus Carinatus - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds Tansy

Gladiolus Carinatus - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds TansyGladiolus (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

with four petals that are vivid red

The scoville rating is at 1 500 to 2 500 scoville units

They should be treated like Lithops

downy mildew

Crotalaria is a genus of herbaceous plants and woody shrubs in the Family Fabaceae (Subfamily Faboideae) commonly known as rattlepods

Top Mark made its appearance sometime in the early 1960s

A night flowering plant

Umbrella like clusters of tiny white flowers appear in late spring and early summer and attract butterflies and a host of beneficial insects including bees

deep violet purple flowers growing to 16cm

There are not many aloes from the Cape that flower during summer

Mature trees in China are broadly conical and grow about 100 feet tall from thick buttressed roots

Unlike other sphaeroids