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Drimia pancration

Drimia pancration is a small bulbous geophyte from the western and central Mediterranean that grows from a bulb and dies back to dormancy in summer. Give it a dry summer rest and good drainage, and water mainly in the growing season.

Family
Asparagaceae (Asparagus family)
Grows as
Bulb
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water sparingly during the autumn to spring growing season and keep the bulb dry while it is dormant in summer.
Soil
Free-draining gritty or sandy mix.
Temperature
10–25 °C; tolerates light frost when dry, protect from prolonged freezing wet cold.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
NE. Spain to C. Medit.
Climate
subtropical

About

Drimia pancration is a species of plants in the family Asparagaceae. It is a bulbous geophyte native to the lands in and around the western and central Mediterranean, including mainland Spain, the Balearic Islands, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Malta, mainland Italy, Tunisia, and former Yugoslavia.

Other Drimia plants

Maerman Squill · Satin Squill · Collar Squill · Drimia haworthioides · Indian Squill · Sea Squill · Itchy Squill · Drimia nagarjunae · Drimia namibensis · Flat Squill · Drimia secunda · Indian Squill

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Drimia pancration by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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