Dipcadi gracillimum Seeds - Indigenous South African Native Perennial Bulb Seeds from Africa

Dipcadi gracillimum Seeds

South African Indigenous Perennial Bulb

Dipcadi is a genus of perennial bulbous flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae (also treated as the family Hyacinthaceae). It is widely distributed, occurring in southern Europe, most of Africa and the Middle East through to the Indian subcontinent. Species of Dipcadi grow from small bulbs. The solitary flower stem (scape) bears a loose raceme of green or brown flowers, sometimes with different colours at the tips of the three inner tepals. The raceme is usually one-sided. The tepals are joined at the base for up to two thirds of their length to form a tube. The ends of the tepals then curve outwards, particularly the outer three. The outer three tepals may have a rounded "spur" at their tips. The stamens, which are enclosed within the flower, are joined to the tube formed by the tepals and have flat filaments. Dipcadi gracillimum, synonymously known as Dipcadi dipcadioides, Dipcadi involutum, Dipcadi polyphyllum or Ornithogalum dipcadioides and commonly known as Oumasegroottoon in Afrikaans is a South African indigenous species from the Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and Northern Cape Provinces. The Afrikaans vernacular name literally translates to grandmothers big toe. It grows from 20 to 30cm tall and bears 8-17 filiform to linear leaves with in-rolled margins, up to 35 cm long. These arise from a bulb 13 to 24mm in diameter. It bears a raceme with 5 to 12 yellowish to green flowers.