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Photo by Cok Grootscholten.


  Rhodocodon sp1. by Olaf Pronk.


Photo from: Olaf Pronk, Laurette E.U.R.L.

Author:  J.M.H.A. Perrier de la Bāthie, 1931
Family:  HYACINTHACEAE
Origin:  Western Madagascar
Soil:  Mix
Water:  Medium
Sun:  Medium
Thickness:  4 Centimetres
Height:  20 Centimetres
Flower:  Greenish-White - Greenish-Brown
Propagate:  Seed/Bulbs
Names:  -
Synonyms:  Might be: Drimia rotunda, John C. Manning & Peter Goldblatt, 2003.
Rhodocodon rotundatus,
Speta.

This member of the Hyacinthaceae family was described by Joseph Marie Henry Alfred Perrier de la Bāthie in 1931. It is found on western Madagascar, growing in a well drained soil with some water and some sun. It will grow up to 20 centimetres high from a four centimetre bulb, and it can be reproduced both by seeds and bulbs.

The genera name from Latin rhodo; 'rose' and the Greek kodon; 'bell' for the flowers. The species name means 'round', again for the flowers.

*)Accordantly to the latest taxonomic system; APG IV 2016, Hyacinthaceae is now part of the Asparagaceae.


Rhodocodon sp 2.


Photo by Monica Swartz, Pacificbulbsociety.org.