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Tricoryne tenella

Tricoryne tenella
Photo: Kevin Thiele from Perth, Australia, CC BY 2.0

Tricoryne tenella is a small perennial bulb-forming herb from southern Australia, belonging to the Asphodelaceae (Aloe family). Little is documented about its cultivation, so care here is based on general knowledge of similar small Australian geophytes.

Family
Asphodelaceae (Aloe family)
Grows as
Bulb
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water moderately during active growth in cooler months and let the soil dry out while dormant.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or loamy soil.
Temperature
10–25 °C; tolerates light frost.
Native range
SC. Western Australia, SE. South Australia (incl. Kangaroo I.)
Climate
subtropical

About

Tricoryne tenella is a species of flowering plant in the family Asphodelaceae.

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Yellow Autumn Lily · Tricoryne

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tricoryne tenella 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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