WorldFloraDB - Bulbine latifolia

Characteristics

Succulent, shortly-caulescent or caulescent, perennial herb; rosettes pendent, erect or decumbent, solitary, with rhizomatous but slightly tuberous base. Stems absent or up to 0.7 m long, with persistent dried leaf bases weathering to form fibrous network. Leaves pale green to glaucous, firm, linear-lanceolate to triangular-lanceolate, up to 0.4 m long, spreading-erect, curved or pendent and curving downwards, in rosette. Inflorescence erect or ascending, up to 0.9 m high, with dense raceme; bracts deltoid, acuminate, clasping. Flowers yellow. Flowering time Aug.-Nov.

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Perennial herb, up to 300 mm tall, acaulescent with a dense rosette of leaves. Leaves fleshy, up to 300 mm long, 50-60 mm broad, ovate-lanceolate. Raceme many-flowered. Flowers yellow.

Geophyte, 30-60 cm, rootstock a thick rhizome with thin wiry roots. Leaves in a rosette, broadly lanceolate. Flowers in a dense, elongate raceme, yellow. Capsules globose, erect.

Life form	perennial
Growth form	herb
Growth support	free-standing
Foliage retention	evergreen
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Mature height (meter)	0.3 - 0.9
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Uses	medicinal
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Therapeutic use	Rheumatism (unspecified), Blood (unspecified)
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