Tulbaghia violacea 'Silver Lace'
Variegated Society Garlic
These long-blooming perennials from South Africa are easy to grow. The star-shaped flowers grow in large, round clusters that appear intermittently throughout the spring and summer.
Tulbaghia violacea 'Silver Lace'
Alliaceae (=Umbelliferae)
Tulbaghia violacea 'Silver Lace', or Variegated Society Garlic, is a perennial plant with narrow, up to 12 inch (30 cm) long leaves.
Tulbaghia violacea
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Society Garlic
Description
Tulbaghia violacea is a fast growing plant that forms clumps reaching 30 inches in height. This plant grows well in dry circumstances and makes a good rock garden or container plant.
Tulbaghia
( Tulbaghia )
Tulbaghia is a clump-forming, rhizomatous, bulbous or deciduous perennial, with narrow leaves, long stems topped with clusters of star-shaped flowers. In very mild climates, they are evergreen, frost damage occurs at 20 to 25F.
Tulbaghia 'Silver Lace' and 'Highland Wonder'
Botanical names: Tulbaghia cominsii 'Silver lace' and Tulbaghia leucantha 'Highland Wonder'.
Common name: `Society Garlic`.
#793 Tulbaghia violacea
Common Names: society garlic, pink agapanthus
Family: Amaryllidaceae (amaryllis Family)
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Although Tulbaghia violacea "Variegata" or "Silver Lace," a native of South Africa, is similar to garlics, it is only a distant cousin. It is more closely related to narcissis. The first August photo shows both flower & the grassy foliage.
Tulbaghia violacea 'Variegata' : Variegated Society Garlic - Whole Plant
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Tulbaghia violacea
(Pink agapanthus, Society garlic, Sweet garlic) (1 user review)
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TULBAGHIA - Of our many tulbaghia species, T. fragrans or "sweet garlic" has the showiest, agapanthus-like blooms and nicest scent.
Synonymy: Tulbaghiaceae Salisbury
2C. Gilliesieae Baker
Corona +/0, (A 2-3; variously connate and adnate; extrorse; staminodes +); ovules 2-many/carpel, (inner integument 5-7 cells across - Dichelostemma); embryo short; n = ³4.
Society Garlic [English]: Tulbaghia violacea
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Allium scorodoprasum
Allium sphaerocephalon (Round-Headed Garlic, Drumsticks)
Allium tuberosum (Chinese Chives, Oriental Garlic)
Allium unifolium
Tulbaghia fragrans (Pink Agapanthus)
Tulbaghia violacea (Society Garlic) ...
sank Schizostylis coccinea into Hesperantha as Hesperantha coccinea on the grounds that the reversion to a rhizome was no more than an adaptation to a wet habitat and the long tubed red flower was to cater for its pollinator Aeropetes tulbaghia.
at first sight, which may account for its botanical name, an adaptation of the Greek words for love (agape) and flower (anthos). Pink-flowering forms are also being developed, but they should not be confused with a similar-looking species, Tulbaghia ...
Each flower measures about 1 cm across. Pollination is by butterflies, particularly the mountain pride butterfly, Meneris tulbaghia, which is unusual among butterflies in pollinating bright red flowers.
 See also: Garlic, Society garlic, Green, Lavender, Onion
  
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