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Daubenya alba Seeds

South African Endemic Perennial Bulb

Daubenya is a South African endemic genus of perennial bulbous flowering plants in the family Hyacinthaceae. Species of Daubenya grow from bulbs covered with a brownish tunic. Each bulb produces only two leaves, which appear with the flowers and normally spread out along the ground on either side. The inflorescence is a raceme, usually very condensed and close to the ground. Individual flowers are white, pink, yellow or red.  Recognized species are Daubenya alba, Daubenya aurea, Daubenya capensis, Daubenya comata, Daubenya marginata, Daubenya namaquensis, Daubenya stylosa and Daubenya zeyheri. Flowers are pollinated by butterflies, beetles, sunbirds, and bees depending on the species. They do great in cultivation and grow well in pots.

Daubenya alba is an attractive white flowered species with elongated white or pale violet flowers borne on quite long pedicels. It also has a long, slender, cylindrical flower tube. It differs, even from its closest relatives by several additional botanical features, which separate it from all of the other species, but for the gardener it is perhaps enough to know that it looks like no other species and is very lovely with loosely borne flowers sitting just above two leaves. In the wild it is limited to a handful of localities in the Roggersveld where it is said to grow on waterlogged clay derived from Dolerite.