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Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Eucomis in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Eucomis (Greek, beautiful hair or topknot). Liliaceae. Cape bulbs, half-hardy, producing radical rosettes of long leaves and a strong peduncle or scape bearing a raceme of greenish or whitish flowers more or less tinged with color, the cluster crowned or topped with a coma of leafy bracts (it is from this coma or crest that the generic name is taken). Bulb tunicated: peduncle simple: Lvs. lorate or oblong, often tinged or spotted with purple: fls. regular, 6-parted, rotate; stamens 6; ovary broad and short; style cylindrical and stigma capitate: caps. 3- valved.—-Species about 12, African, nearly all from S. Afr. Prop, by offsets. The bulbs may remain in the open if in a warm place and well protected; some of them stand considerable frost, and bloom in spring. Of easy cult. Let the bulbs remain where planted. In the N. treated as glasshouse plants. ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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