AVERAGE SIZE (H) x (W): 0.3m x 0.3m
FLOWERING TIME: J F M A M J J A S O N D
FRUITING TIME: J F M A M J J A S O N D
Nerine laticoma is a summer growing flower found in the wild in a broad band stretching from the dry inland parts of Namibia eastwards and southwards through southern Botswana, Limpopo, Gauteng, the North-West, Northern Cape, Free State and Lesotho. It usually occurs in large colonies on deep, red, sandy soils. It has a large and deep-seated bulb which serves as a storage organ. A tuft of new leaves emerge from the bulb in spring when conditions for growth improve. There is a tuft of four to eight broad, strap-shaped leaves which can grow to 300 tall. N. laticoma bears a large, spherical inflorescence of white, or pale to rose pink flowers. Flowers are short-lived and are followed by a papery capsule which is the fruit and contains one to many round, or irregularly-shaped, fleshy seeds.
GARDEN THEMES:Bushveld, desert, grassland
LANDSCAPING USES:
This is a summer-growing plant. It survives the cold, dry winters by going dormant.
So beautiful, but not the big lilium that flowers along the roads, with huge moths diving in with their long probosces.