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Agapanthus africanus
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Family:
AMARYLLIDACEAE
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Citation: Agapanthus africanus (L.) Hoffmanns., Verz. Pfl.-Kult. 35. 1824.
Crinum africanum L., Sp. Pl. 292. 1753.
Mauhlia africana (L.) Dahl, Observ. Bot. 26. 1787.
Crinum floridum Salisb., Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton 228. 1796, nom. superfl.
Tulbaghia africana (L.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 2: 718. 1891.
Abumon africanum (L.) Britton, Fl. Bermuda 72. 1918.
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Malayalam Name(s):
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
African lily
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Description:
Perennial herbs from a short, creeping rootstock with numerous thick roots. Leaves many, radical, lorate, to 75 x 3.5 cm, apex obtuse. Scape to 100 cm, erect, angled. Umbel terminal, to 20 cm wide, subtended by 2 foliaceous bracts to 5 x 3.5 cm. Flowers up to 50 to the umbel; pedicel to 7 cm, each subtended by a foliaceous bracteole. Perianth petaloid, deep blue to white, gamophyllous, to 4.5 cm wide; tube 2 cm; lobes 3+3, oblanceolate, to 3.5 x 1 cm spreading. Stamens 6, inserted at throat of tube; filaments to 4.5 cm, blue, twisted; anthers introrse, versatile. Ovary superior, oblong, to 1.2 cm, angled and 3 celled with numerous ovules, on axile placentae; style slender, to 3.5 cm, blue. Capsule 3-sided, to 3 x 1.2 cm; seeds numerous, minute.
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Habit:
Herb
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Flowering & Fruiting:
Throughout the year
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District(s):
Idukki
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grown as garden plant
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Distribution:
Native of South Africa
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
White, Blue, Violet
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Monocotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
Yes
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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