Ixia Micranda - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds Spinach small leaflets and creamy-white flowers

small leaflets and creamy-white flowers in short spikes in Summer with reddish velvety pods

The seeds collected were shared with other botanical gardens around the world

slender leaves and 2 lipped rose centred flowers surrounded by mauve or cerise with flexed lower tepals

and produces very good fruit

The flowers are small and inconspicuous

Ixia Micranda - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds Spinach small leaflets and creamy-white flowersThe genus Ixia consists of a number of cormous plants native to South Africa from the Iridaceae family and Ixioideae subfamily. Some of them are known as the corn lily. Some distinctive traits include: sword like leaves, and long wiry stems with star shaped flowers. It usually prefers well drained soil. The popular corn lily has specific, not very intense fragrance as vegetables. That is why it's often visited by many insects such as bees. The Ixia