Tulbaghia

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Plant Characteristics
Habit   bulbous

Lifespan: perennial
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Tulbaghia is a monocotyledonous genus of herbaceous perennial bulbs originating in Africa belonging to the Alliaceae family.


Read about Tulbaghia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Tulbaghia (Tulbagh, a Dutch governor at the Cape of Good Hope, died 1771). Liliaceae. Perennial herbs with a short thick woody sometimes corm-like rhizome, usually grown in the greenhouse: lvs. radical, ligulate: scape simple, leafless: fls. in a terminal umbel, numerous, pedicellate; perianth urn-shaped or almost salver-shaped; lobes 6, subequal, spreading; crown rather fleshy at the throat, shorter than the lobes; stamens 6; ovary sessile, ovoid or subglobose, 3-celled: caps. ovoid or oblong, loculicidally dehiscent.—About 20 species, Trop. and S. Afr. Greenhouse subjects, little cult.; prop. by seeds and offsets. CH


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