Cyrtanthus tuckii
Bak.
Green-tipped fire lily, Impimpiliza
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Description
A herb. It has a bulb. The leaves are produced after the flowers. There are up to 8 flowers and they are turned to one side and nodding. The flowers are tubes 5 cm long. They are red.
Edible Uses
The flowers and leaves are edible portions of this plant.
Distribution
It grows in the highveld in Swaziland.
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
