10 Chlorophytum undulatum Seeds - Indigenous South African Native Perennial Bulb Seeds from Africa

Chlorophytum undulatum Seeds

The genus Chlorophytum is placed in the Anthericaceae family and comprises around 215 species found worldwide with the densest diversity in Africa and India. The genus name Chlorophytum is a combination of the two Greek words chloros, meaning green and phyton, meaning plant, i.e. “green plant”. The family Anthericaceae comprises 8 genera of which 2 occur in Africa, namely Anthericum and Chlorophytum. It can be difficult to distinguish between the genus Chlorophytum and the genus Trachyandra which belongs to the closely related family Asphodelaceae. A well-known species in the family Anthericaceae is Chlorophytum comosum (better known as ‘hen-and-chickens') which is also a popular garden plant.

Chlorophytum undulatum is a South African endemic species from the Northern Cape and Western Cape Provinces. It is a rhizomatous geophyte to 50cm, with slender roots or sometimes with short tubers. The leaves are linear or lanceolate, usually in a rosette, straight or crisped. Flowers are white with dark keels in an unbranched raceme. It grows on clay flats and slopes and in rocky places.