Lachenalia

Family Liliaceae. Native to South Africa. About 90 species are found.

The most commonly cultivated species - Lachenalia aloides - is a potted plant with a rosette of long lanceolate or strap-shaped leaves about 20 cm long, dark green with small brown spots.

Bright, many-flowered inflorescences on flower stalks about 30 cm long are arranged in racemes. The flowers are nodding, yellow-green with reddish speckles, up to 3 cm long. It blooms in winter. There are cultivars with bright red flowers and with almost green, olive-colored ones.



Temperature: Normal room temperature in summer. Cool in winter, not below 6°C, but not above 12°C.

Light: Lachenalia is light-loving; it prefers bright, diffused light with some direct sunlight.

Watering: Moderate in winter, during flowering; then reduced, and not watered until repotting in autumn. Lachenalia does not tolerate either drying out of the root ball or excess water.

Fertilizer: During bud formation and flowering feed weekly with a balanced fertilizer for ornamental flowering plants, at half the manufacturer's recommended dose.

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