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Pineapple Lily

Eucomis autumnalis

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Field Notes

Description:

Long leaves on this plant with a stalk full of light green/pale yellow flowers with small, green leaves on the end. "The single inflorescence is a cylindrical raceme atop a stout stem, carrying more than a hundred flowers, which are yellow to yellow-green in colour. The raceme is tipped with a tuft of leaf-like bracts, looking somewhat like the leaves on a pineapple top (the reason for the common name for this genus). When the flowers have been fertilised, the flowers turn green, making the inflorescence decorative while the trilocular (three-chambered) fruit ripens to produce shiny black round seeds." - Wikipedia

Habitat:

Planted in Balboa Park near the zoo. Native to "South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Malawi. " - Wikipedia

Notes:

This is a bulb in the Asparagus family

Species ID Suggestions

Pineapple lily

Eucomis

Comments (1)

How funny, I almost described this as similar to a pineapple! Thank you so much for the ID, joanbstanley!

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