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Tulbaghia violacea (Wild garlic)

Wildeknoffel [Afrikaans]; isihaqa [Zulu]

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Monocotyledons > Order: Asparagales > Family: Amaryllidaceae > Genus: Tulbaghia

Tulbaghia violacea (Wild garlic)

Tulbaghia violacea growing in the Company Gardens, Cape Town. [photo H.G. Robertson, Iziko ©]

Tulbaghia violacea (Wild garlic) Tulbaghia violacea (Wild garlic)

Tulbaghia violacea flowering in early summer in a seep below the forest and next to the beach in the Tsitsikamma National Park on the southern Cape coast, Western Cape, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

Tulbaghia violacea growing in the Company Gardens, Cape Town. [photo H.G. Robertson, Iziko ©]

See Creative gardening with indigenous plants by Pitta Joffe p. 299.