Bulbine abyssinica

A small geophyte, with an underground stem, and a tuft of slender leaves that appear in a rosette above the ground. The leaves are slender, succulent and cylindrical (200 mm long; 5 mm broad).

The 50 cm tall inflorescence appears in early Summer, or after rains. The yellow flowers are carried at the top of it. Like all Bulbine species, the stamens are distinctively tufted ("bearded").^[2]

This species is widespread across southern, central, and eastern Africa, where it grows in rocky soils. It ranges from Yemen and Sudan in the north to Republic of the Congo and Angola in the west and to the Cape Provinces of South Africa in the south.^[1] In the south, it grows as far as the town of Worcester, South Africa.^[3]