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Accession Data

Zantedeschia aethiopica

Common Name: Calla Lily, Lily of the Nile

Family: Araceae

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.

Accession Data

USDA Zone: 8-11

Accession #: 198500186

Accession Date: 1985-12-31

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 1117

Quantity: 2

Source: T&M

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Liliopsida

Subclass: monocots

Order: Alismatales

Family: Araceae

SubFamily: Aroideae

Tribe: Zantedeschieae

Flowering Data:

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References

  1. Plants For A Future Website Exotica by AB Graf
  2. Zantedeschia aethiopica at Cal's Plant of the Week. Last accessed on Wednesday, July 13, 2016.
  3. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Saturday, January 28, 2017.
  4. WCSP (2016). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Saturday, January 28, 2017.

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Zantedeschia aethiopica