Gladiolus Liliaceus - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds Cucumber and Platycodon (balloon flower)

and Platycodon (balloon flower)

but it is now usually understood to have about 208 species

lance-shaped

and firm with sweet salmon coloured flesh

Its common name was calqued from the French

Gladiolus Liliaceus - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds Cucumber and Platycodon (balloon flower)Gladiolus (from Latin, the diminutive of gladius, a sword) is a genus of perennial bulbous flowering plants in the iris family (Iridaceae). 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