Chlorophytum (Anthericaceae) BSWJ2528

nepalense

A plant that is unaccountably rare in cultivation, having once been a member of the lily family. From one of our early collections gathered in a dense forest in Sikkim in 1994. Forming a bulbous root-stock with a clumping habit bearing long narrow dark-green leaves only 1cm wide with a contrasting central light stripe, below the long arching stems of pendent white-yellow beaked flowers, 30-90cm tall, flowering July-Sept. Best grown in a sheltered shady site in a well drained, but moisture retentive soil.