Gladiolus Tristis - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds Gladiolus The juice is intensely flavoured

The juice is intensely flavoured

they are best grown in light well-drained soil with adequate moisture

densely flower branched raceme

One of the "strewing herbs" of antiquity

Gladiolus Tristis - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds Gladiolus The juice is intensely flavouredGladiolus (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