Cyrtanthus galpinii

Bak.

Fire lily, Impimpiliza

Amaryllidaceae Edible: Flowers, Leaves 87 iNaturalist observations

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Description

A herb. It has a bulb 2 cm across. There are usually 2 leaves. These are very narrow and are produced after the flowers. The flower stalk is slender and 20 cm long. The flowers occur singly and are erect or nodding. They are tube shaped and 1.5 cm long then widening to 4 cm wide at the mouth. They are red.

Edible Uses

The flowers and leaves are edible.

Distribution

It is a subtropical plant.

Where It Grows

Africa, Eswatini, South Africa, Southern Africa*, Swaziland,

References (6)

Long, C., 2005, Swaziland's Flora - siSwati names and Uses http://www.sntc.org.sz/flora/
Ogle & Grivetti, 1985,
Peters, C. R., O'Brien, E. M., and Drummond, R.B., 1992, Edible Wild plants of Sub-saharan Africa. Kew. p 10
Ruiters-Welcome, A. K., 2019, Food plants of southern Africa. Ph.D. thesis. Univ. of Johannesburg p 12
Swaziland's Flora Database http://www.sntc.org.sz/flora

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Welcome, A. K. & Van Wyk, B.-E., 2019, An inventory and analysis of the food plants of southern Africa. South African Journal of Botany 122 (2019) 136–179