Accession #: 198500186
Accession Date: 1985-12-31
Common name: Calla Lily, Lily of the Nile
Family: Araceae
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Country of Origin: South Africa. Locally naturalized in southern and western Europe
Description: Robust marsh-loving herb with thick rhizome; forming a tuft of fleshy-stalked, glossy-green leaves 60-90 cm high, on succulent petioles; a stout basal stalk 1-1.5 m high bearing the large, funnel-shaped rolling flaring waxy-white spathe 20-25 cm long, surrounding a bright yellow spadix. To the visitor of the moister parts of the South African Cape it is a common sight to see whole fields of these beautiful callas in bloom during summertime. They are also found to 2300m in Kenya.
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USDA Zone: 8-11
Source: T&M
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