Haemanthus albiflos Jacq.

Bulb solitary or in clumps, ovoid, round in cross section or medianly compressed, up to 80 mm across; tunics more or less equal, with horizontal margins, turning green when exposed to light; outermost parts sometimes dark brown and papery. Leaves 2, 4, or 6, erect, recurved or flat on the ground, with the 2 most recent leaves appearing before the inflorescence; blade oblong, lingulate or elliptic, (40-)90-400(-500) mm long, 25-115 mm wide near the middle, flat or channelled; both surfaces light green, immaculate or sometimes with white spots, glabrous or occasionally pubescent, sometimes only on the abaxial or adaxial surface; margin densely to sparsely ciliate, or rarely smooth; apex obtuse or acute. Peduncle stout or slender, erect or deflexed, 50-350 mm long, 5-14 mm across greatest diam., green, immaculate, glabrous or pubescent. Umbel compact, narrowly obconical to obovoid, 25-70 mm across. Spathe valves 4-8, erect but standing somewhat apart, shorter or slightly longer than the flowers, oblong to broadly ovate, 18-40 mm long, 6-30 mm broad, white with green veins, stiff but not fleshy; margin fringed with retrorse hairs, rarely smooth; tips obtuse to acute. Flowers 25-50, white. Pedicels 1-10 mm long, green. Perianth 16-23 mm long; tube 4-7 mm long, usually slightly swollen at the middle; segments standing slightly apart, oblong, 10-18 mm long, 1-2.5 mm broad; tips acute to obtuse. Filaments exserted by up to 9 mm, white. Anthers 1-2 mm long when open, yellow to orange. Ovary subglobose, 2-3 mm diam., green. Style as long as the filaments. Berries ovoid, about 10 mm diam., pulpy, white, orange or red. Seeds ovoid, about 5 mm diam., white.

Can be grown by seedlings.