Plant from the Jacobsen
Collection in Kiel BG.
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A member of the Hyacinthaceae family, given this name by Ernst
Jacobus Van Jaarsveld in 1983. Found in
southern Namibia, north-western
South Africa, where
it grows in well drained soil, some water and sun. The onion-like
caudex can be op to 20 centimetres in diameter, and the
branches reaches for op to three meters, but will die back when dried out
in summer.
It gets small white-greenish flowers, but can also be reproduced by
dividing the bulbs.
Different from B.
volubilis by the stems being glaucous, prostrate and not veining
and the capsule valves are retuse.
Highly poison, from root to top!
This is a winter grower.
The true leaves that emerge from the bulb are small, very short lived,
but they are replaced by the scrambling or twining, branched green
flowering stems which reach up to four meters long which are scattered with starry,
green flowers.
Bowiea is named after the British plant collector James Bowie
(1789-1869.
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