Tulbaghia leucantha Baker

Species

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Amaryllidaceae > Tulbaghia

Characteristics

An onion family herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It has small corms and an underground stem. The plant smells of garlic. The leaves are slender. The flowering stems are 20 cm long. The flowers are green to white.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 0.1 - 0.5
Mature height (meter) 0.1 - 0.5
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

It is a tropical plant. It grows in wet grassland and open woodland. It is often on sandy soil.
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Found at elevations from 30-2,325 metres.
Light 7-9
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity 2-8
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 11-12

Usage

It is used as a vegetable relish. The young plants are eaten.
Uses medicinal
Edible flowers leaves rhizomes stems
Therapeutic use Potherb (unspecified), Tobacco (unspecified), Witchcraft (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by divisions or seedlings.
Mode divisions seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Vigor -
Productivity -

Distribution

Tulbaghia leucantha world distribution map, present in Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, eSwatini, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:542781-1
WFO ID wfo-0000744615
COL ID 59KT8
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Tulbaghia dieterlenii Tulbaghia leucantha