Dierama pendulum SEEDS

Dierama pendulum seeds grow into the pendulous wand flower a cormous geophyte native to the subtropical biome of the Eastern Cape of South Africa. The epithet pendulum means ‘pendulous’ or ‘hanging’, describing the characteristically drooping, pendant flower clusters on long, thread-thin pedicels the most dramatically pendulous of all South African Dierama. Described by Baker (John Gilbert Baker, 18341920, Kew). One of the more eastern-range Dierama species, from the coastal and sub-coastal grasslands and forest margins of the Eastern Cape. Produces wiry, arching scapes carrying large, broadly funnel-shaped flowers in pink to rose-purple on especially long, swaying pedicels that enhance the pendulous, fishing-rod effect. All Dierama are cormous geophytes. Family Iridaceae.

Full sun; well-drained, moist soils; warm subtropical Eastern Cape conditions; tolerates moderate frost. Best left undisturbed once established.

• ‘Pendulum’ = pendulous; especially long-pedicelled drooping flowers most dramatically pendant Dierama
• Described by Baker (18341920, Kew); Eastern Cape endemic
• E. Cape Prov. subtropical biome; coastal and sub-coastal grasslands; cormous geophyte
• Broadly funnel-shaped pink-rose flowers on long swaying thread-thin pedicels
• Full sun; well-drained moist soils; warm subtropical; Family Iridaceae

Dierama pendulum is the pendulous wand flower producing the most dramatically drooping, swaying flower display in the entire genus, its long thread-thin pedicels creating a fishing-rod effect of extraordinary botanical elegance in the coastal grasslands of the Eastern Cape.

IMPORTANT: Pictures show the adult plant, which is not for sale. The offer is only for seeds.