Gladiolus Tristis - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds Onion non-splitting and curved to twisted

non-splitting and curved to twisted pod

such as in the form of herbal tea

multi-stemmed shrub

It is recommended as a good cultivar to use for succession sowings

Hirsutus grows to 60cm and flowers in spring

Gladiolus Tristis - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds Onion non-splitting and curved to twistedGladiolus (from Latin, the diminutive of gladius, a sword) is a genus of perennial bulbous flowering plants in the iris family. Sometimes called the sword lily, the most widely used English common name for these plants is simply gladiolus (plural gladioli, gladioluses or sometimes gladiolas). The genus is distributed in Mediterranean Europe, Asia, Tropical Africa and South Africa. The centre of diversity of the genus is located in the Cape Floristic