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Rhodian Fritillary

Fritillaria rhodia

Rhodian Fritillary
Photo: Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0

Fritillaria rhodia is a small bulbous geophyte from the Greek island of Rhodes in the Aegean, grown as a rare bulb for its nodding flowers. Give it a dry summer rest and well-drained soil, as bulbs rot in wet, heavy ground.

Family
Liliaceae (Lily family)
Grows as
Bulb
Light
Part shade, Full sun
Water
Water moderately in the growing season in spring and keep it nearly dry during the summer dormancy.
Soil
Free-draining, gritty soil with some leaf mould or grit added to a loam base.
Temperature
10–25 °C during growth; the bulb tolerates summer heat and mild winters but protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
E. Aegean Is. (Rodos)
Climate
subtropical

About

Fritillaria rhodia, called the Rhodian fritillary, is a Greek species of plant in the lily family Liliaceae. The only known wild populations are on the Island of Rhodes in the Aegean Sea, although the species has been cultivated elsewhere.

Other Fritillaria plants

Fritillaria acmopetala · Checker lily · Stinkbells · Fritillaria alburyana · Fritillaria anhuiensis · Fritillaria assyriaca · Spotted fritillary · Chocolate lily · Chocolate lily · Greenhorn fritillary · Kamchatka fritillary · Fritillaria chitralensis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Fritillaria rhodia 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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