Drimia
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Read about Drimia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Drimia (name refers to the acridity of the roots). Liliaceae. Bulbous S. African and Trop. African plants of the Scilla tribe, with gamophyllous perianth and a campanulate tube, the segms. linear-oblong and reflexing: stamens 6, shorter than the segms., and inserted at the throat of the perianth-tube; ovary sessile, ovoid, 3-celled, becoming a loculicidally 3-valved membranous caps.:lvs. either broad and rather fleshy or narrow and rigid, often appearing at a different season from the bloom: fls. on a naked peduncle or scape, in a simple raceme.—About 30 species, none of which appears to be regularly in cult. D. oligosperma, C. H. Wright. Probably from S. Afr., and very recently described: fl.-clusters over 6 ft. high, much Dranched, the beautiful white fls. with 3 green nerves on the oblanceolate spreading petals opening late in the afternoon: bulb elliptic, 6 in. long: lvs. 12-14, rosulate, 1½ ft. long, linear-acuminate, glabrous. Likely to come into commercial cult. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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