Gladiolus Carinatus - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds Broccoli the petals curled or quilled

the petals curled or quilled

cream flowers with vivid orange & red centre

are minute but are packed in spherical clusters

branched panicle of flowers to 1m

The leaves are pinnate with 531 leaflets and the terminal leaflet present

Gladiolus Carinatus - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds Broccoli the petals curled or quilledGladiolus (from Latin, the diminutive of gladius, a sword) is a genus of perennial bulbous flowering plants in the iris family. Sometimes called the sword lily, the most widely used English common name for these plants is simply gladiolus (plural gladioli, gladioluses or sometimes gladiolas). The genus is distributed in Mediterranean Europe, Asia, Tropical Africa and South Africa. The centre of diversity of the genus is located in the Cape Floristic