Botanical name: Watsonia meriana    Family: Iridaceae (Iris family)
Synonyms: Watsonia bulbillifera, Watsonia fulgens, Watsonia iridifolia

Bulbil Bugle Lily is a perennial herb growing from a fibrous-coated corm and growing to a maximum height well over 1 m when in flower, sometimes reaching 2 m. Each corm produces three or four erect, lance-shaped leaves that measure up to 60 cm long by 6 wide. They have thickened midribs and margins. The inflorescence is an open spike of 8-25 flowers which may be in shades of orange to reddish or purplish. The flower is up to 8 cm long, with a long, tubular throat and spreading tepals. The flowers sometimes yield capsule fruits which contain seed, but the plant often reproduces via bulbils that form in clusters in the axils of bracts at nodes along the flower-cluster-stalk. Bulbil Bugle Lily is native to Cape Province, naturalized in Australia, Europe and probably South India.

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