Gladiolus Brevifolius var. Brevifolius - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds Comfrey Its shape and colour resembles

Its shape and colour resembles a banana

Some species of Crotalaria are grown as ornamentals

pale cream-coloured flowers form an elongated spike up to 35-160 x 20 mm

but it is not a lily and all of the species are native to South Africa from the cape to the Limpopo River

Grows well autumn through spring and harvests at 3 to 4 months

Gladiolus Brevifolius var. Brevifolius - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds Comfrey Its shape and colour resemblesGladiolus (from Latin, the diminutive of gladius, a sword) is a genus of perennial bulbous flowering plants in the iris family. Sometimes called the sword lily, the most widely used English common name for these plants is simply gladiolus (plural gladioli, gladioluses or sometimes gladiolas). The genus is distributed in Mediterranean Europe, Asia, Tropical Africa and South Africa. The centre of diversity of the genus is located in the Cape Floristic