Androcymbium

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Read about Androcymbium in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Androcymbium (name referring to arrangement of stamens around a cavity). Liliaceae. A dozen or more species of bulbous plants growing from the Medit. region to S. Afr., one or two of which may be expected in choice greenhouse collections. Bulbs tunicated: sts. subterranean, from which arise a few narrow Lvs. : fls. few, in short spikes and subtended by showy bracts in spring or summer. A. melanthoides, Willd., of S. and Cent. Afr., recently intro., has bulb like minute tulip: Lvs. 2-4, from 3-9 in. long: fls. small, borne in clusters in axils of large bracts which reach 3 in. long and some of which are white, green-veined. G.G. III. 45:315, desc. A. leucanthum, Willd. (A. punctatum, Baker, in part), of S. Afr., has few whitish fls. in dense umbel and 4 spreading Lvs.


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