Gladiolus Brevifolius var. Brevifolius - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds Lettuce and can be fussy about

and can be fussy about too much water at the wrong time

branched red raceme in Winter

The genus include 56 species which are distributed in tropical and southern Africa

The small sphaeroid bodies of these plants resemble other rock-like mesembs such as Lithops

The flowers

Gladiolus Brevifolius var. Brevifolius - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds Lettuce and can be fussy aboutGladiolus (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