WorldFloraDB - Calostemma purpureum

Characteristics

Bulb usually 2-4 cm diam. Leaves to 60 cm long, 7-15 mm wide. Umbels 12-25-flowered; scape to 45 cm long; involucral bracts 2.5-10 cm long, pink or purple; pedicels to 35 mm long. Perianth pink or purple, rarely white, sometimes yellow at base; tube 4-8 mm long; lobes 10-16 mm long. Corona 5-8 mm long, obtusely 1-or 2-lobed or truncate between filaments, pink; anthers 1.5-2 mm long. Capsule 6-10 mm diam.

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A small plant. It grows 30-60 cm high. It spreads 10-20 cm wide. The leaves are fleshy and strap like. The flowers are like daffodil flowers. They are yellow or pink. The bulbs multiply and build up in number.

Life form	perennial
Growth form	herb
Growth support	free-standing
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Mature height (meter)	0.3 - 0.6
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Environment

It grows in temperate and semiarid places. It needs well drained soil. It can grow in dry soil and full sunlight. It can stand light frost.

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Grows in open woodland, often along watercourses and in rocky sites.

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Uses	animal food
Edible	bulbs roots
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Cultivation

It can be grown from seed or by division of the bulbs.

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