Gladiolus Brevifolius var. Brevifolius - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds Lettuce The genus include 56 species

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

The flowers

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

the flowers are not showy

Gladiolus Brevifolius var. Brevifolius - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds Lettuce The genus include 56 speciesGladiolus (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