Tulbaghia
Habit | bulbous
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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
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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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Species
The species of Tulbaghia are:
- Tulbaghia acutiloba Harv.
- Tulbaghia aequinoctialis Welw. ex Baker
- Tulbaghia affinis Link
- Tulbaghia alliacea L.f.
- Tulbaghia bragae Engl.
- Tulbaghia calcarea Engl. & K.Krause
- Tulbaghia cameronii Baker
- Tulbaghia capensis L.
- Tulbaghia coddii Vosa & Burb.
- Tulbaghia cominsii Vosa
- Tulbaghia dregeana Kunth
- Tulbaghia friesii Suess.
- Tulbaghia galpinii Schltr.
- Tulbaghia hypoxidea Sm.
- Tulbaghia leucantha Baker
- Tulbaghia ludwigiana Harv.
- Tulbaghia luebbertiana Engl. & K.Krause
- Tulbaghia macrocarpa Vosa
- Tulbaghia montana Vosa
- Tulbaghia natalensis Baker
- Tulbaghia nutans Vosa
- Tulbaghia pauciflora Baker
- Tulbaghia rhodesica R.E.Fr.
- Tulbaghia simmleri P.Beauv.
- Tulbaghia tenuior K.Krause & Dinter
- Tulbaghia transvaalensis Vosa
- Tulbaghia verdoornia Vosa & Burb.
- Tulbaghia violacea Harv.
- Tulbaghia x aliceae Vosa
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
External links
- w:Tulbaghia. Some of the material on this page may be from Wikipedia, under the Creative Commons license.
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