Iridaceae FAMILY

Gladiolus dalenii

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Gladiolus dalenii is an erect, robust, perennial plant growing from an underground corm that is up to 30mm in diameter. It produces 6 - 10 sword-shaped leaves up to 120cm long and a flowering stem around 70 - 120cm tallr[ 308 Title Flora Zambesiaca Publication Author Website http://apps.kew.org/efloras/fz/intro.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent online flora of plants from the Zambezi River basin. It lists a number of the plant uses as well as the habitats and botanical descriptions of the plants. , 2044 Title Useful Plants of Kongo Central Province, Democratic Republic of Congo (Third Edition) Publication Author Paul Latham & Augustin Konda ku Mbuta Publisher Year 2017 ISBN 978-0-9554208-70 Description An excellent publication, clear and precise by people who know their subject. Originally published in French, then translated into English and also made available in two parts in PDF format as a download from the internet. ]. The plant is commonly used as a local source of food, medicines and a soap. It is gathered from the wild and also sometimes cultivated, including outside its native range in west Africa[ 46 Title Dictionary of Economic Plants. Publication Author Uphof. J. C. Th. Publisher Weinheim Year 1959 ISBN - Description An excellent and very comprehensive guide but it only gives very short descriptions of the uses without any details of how to utilize the plants. Not for the casual reader. , 308 Title Flora Zambesiaca Publication Author Website http://apps.kew.org/efloras/fz/intro.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent online flora of plants from the Zambezi River basin. It lists a number of the plant uses as well as the habitats and botanical descriptions of the plants. ]. The plant is also strikingly ornamental and widely cultivated in gardens - it has become a parent of many large-flowered ornamental forms[ 308 Title Flora Zambesiaca Publication Author Website http://apps.kew.org/efloras/fz/intro.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent online flora of plants from the Zambezi River basin. It lists a number of the plant uses as well as the habitats and botanical descriptions of the plants. ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate; tropical

Native RangeAfrica - most countries but absent from the Sahara and N. Africa, the Namibian desert and Somalia.

HabitatGrassy places and open woods; at elevations up to 2,000 metres in Natal[ 260 Title Conservatory and Indoor Plants Volumes 1 & 2 Publication Author Phillips. R. & Rix. M. Publisher Pan Books, London. Year 1998 ISBN 0-330-37376-5 Description Excellent photos of over 1,100 species and cultivars with habits and cultivation details plus a few plant uses. Many species are too tender for outdoors in Britain though there are many that can be grown outside. ]. Both dry and wet meadows, occasionally also in boggy places[ 455 Title Flore de Madagascar et des Comores Publication Author Humbert H. Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ Publisher Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle; Paris Year 1946 - 1984 ISBN Description Written in French, an excellent flora of the area though it has not been completed. Available for download from the Internet. ]. Grassland, rocky ridges[ 1926 Title Plants of the northern provinces of South Africa: keys and diagnostic characters Publication Strelitzia 6; 1-681 Author Retief E. & Herman P.P.J. Publisher National Botanical Institute, Pretoria. Year 1997 ISBN 1-874907-30-7 Description ].