APODOLIRION LANCEOLATUM

This member of the Amaryllidaceae family was given this name by Benjamin Daydon Jackson in 1893. It is found in south-western South Africa, growing in a well drained clayish soil with some water and lots of sun. The bulb can grow to three centimetres in diameter, the entire plant to four or five centimetres in height. The flowers are white.

The genera name from Greek; apod; 'without a foot', and lirion, a white lily; for the 'stemless flower'. The species name from the Latin term for a 'spear' or 'lance', and is usually used to indicate a species with narrow leaves that taper to a point at one end. This is a winter grower in the wild, but flowering in the summer.