Kniphofia Hirsuta - Indigenous South African Bulb - 5 Seeds CabbageKniphofia (Tritoma, Red hot poker, Torch lily, Poker plant) is a genus of plants in the family Xanthorrhoeaceae, subfamily Asphodeloideae, that includes 70 or more species native to Africa. Some species have been commercially used horticulturally and are commonly known for their bright, rocket shaped flowers. These plants produce spikes of upright, brightly colored, red to orange flowers. This gives names such as "torch" and "red hot poker" to many of
Members of the genus are native to southern Africa
and rarely small trees
The seeds can be boiled and eaten
by the amazing speed with which apparently dead leaves reappear when the rains come
Have been used medicinally as well
or grating raw into salads
The only way to ensure with 100% certainty that cross pollination does not occur is to use pollination bags on each flower when the plant starts to bud and before the flowers open
They ripen from green to a purple colour
by crossing a Trinidad 7 Pot with a Naga Morich
Growing to 30m this fig has strangler buttressed roots in large trees
The heat level of this chilli is similar to that of a Jalapeno Chilli ranking in at 5 000 Scoville Heat Units
It grows in a variety of conditions including both wet and dry soils
