Watsonia Laccata - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds Garden Cress

Watsonia Laccata - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds Garden CressWatsonia (Bugle Lily) is a genus of plants in the iris family, subfamily Crocoideae, native to South Africa. The genus is named after Sir William Watson, an 18th century British botanist. There are 52 species in southern Africa; all are perennial herbs growing from corms and producing erect spikes of showy flowers, and are adapted to a Mediterranean type climate. Native to South Africa, Watsonia species were introduced as garden ornamentals to

This is a short-lived perennial herb growing from an underground caudex

and was first cultivated in Mexico several centuries before the emergence of the Mesoamerican classic cultures

the seed morphology is varied and reflects subgeneric groupings within the genus

Pyracantha make fantastic bonsai specimens

The genus was a wastebasket taxon

The leaves are covered in small hairs

Growing to 10 to 15cm

Curator of Simon van Beaumont's garden

they are native throughout the tropics with a few species extending into the semi-warm temperate zone

produces fruit 120 days from transplanting

A small tree / shrub naturally found growing horizontally above water and marshes

with a straight trunk and a rounded canopy