Gladiolus Alatus - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds Parsley with many thorns

with many thorns

semi deciduous

Growing to 50cm with dull yellow buds opening to cream

it is known as comfrey

It has a particularly long flowering period from early to mid summer

Gladiolus Alatus - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds Parsley with many thornsGladiolus (from Latin, the diminutive of gladius, a sword) is a genus of perennial bulbous flowering plants in the iris family. Sometimes called the sword lily, the most widely used English common name for these plants is simply gladiolus (plural gladioli, gladioluses or sometimes gladiolas). The genus is distributed in Mediterranean Europe, Asia, Tropical Africa and South Africa. The centre of diversity of the genus is located in the Cape Floristic