OXALIS PALMIFRONS

This member of the Oxalidaceae family was given this name by Terence Macleane Salter in 1936. It is found in south-western South Africa from Roggeveld Mountains near Sutherland to near Ceres and Laingsburg in Western Cape, growing in a well drained soil with some water and not that much sun. The corm can grow to two centimetres in diameter, the entire plant to ten centimetres in height and 60 centimetres in wide. The flowers are from white to yellow.

The genera name means 'sharp, pungent', as to leaf taste. The species name from Latin palma, meaning 'lobed like a hand' and Latin fron; 'covered'. for the appearance of the plant. This is a winter grower in the wild.