Drimiopsis sp. (Giant Squill)
Botanical name: Drimiopsis sp.
Common names: Giant Squill, Measles Leaf
Family: Asparagaceae
Subfamily: Scilloideae
Origin: Zanzibar
USDA Zone: 9-10
Plant form: Small
Mature height: 2-5 ft
Sun exposure: Semi-shade
Cold tolerance: Frost sensitive. Protect from freezing.
Watering: Moderate
Suitable for: Outdoors in the suitable USDA zone; small gardens, containers, and indoor growing
Foliage color: Ornamental foliagePrennial herb with a globose bulb, scaly toward neck. Leaves 10cm long and 5cm wide, ovate to cordate-oblong, somewhat fleshy, acute, bright green above, blotched deep green; petioles as long as blade, channelled. Inflorescence a many-flowered, spike-like raceme, scape 20-40cm tall; flowers small, white becoming green-white. Rare in cultivation.
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