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Drimia platyphylla
Flat Squill is a small South African bulbous plant in the Asparagus family, native to the Cape Provinces and Namibia. It grows as a winter grower with small grey-blue leaves, and cultivation needs dry, well-drained conditions with a dormant summer.
Dirmia platyphylla is a bulbus plant from South Africa, specifically the Cape Provinces, and Namibia. It was first described in 2014 as Rhadamanthus platyphyllus though its likely that this plant was described earlier as the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens has offered this plant for sale on their 2007 ISI catalogue.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Drimia platyphylla 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.
