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Herbs, smelling strongly of onions. Rootstock a rhizome or bulb. Flowers in umbels, subtended by 2 spathe-like bracts, borne on a solitary peduncle. Perianth segments united into a tube for about half their length; mouth of tube with a fleshy corona which is cylindric or composed of 3 free scales. Capsule loculicidal. Seeds numerous, triangular, black. Derivation of name: After Rijk Tulbagh (1699-1771), a Dutch governor of the Cape of Good Hope Worldwide: 22 species in tropical and South Africa Zimbabwe: 2 cultivated taxa. |
No image of a cultivated species but there is an image of a native or naturalised species |
| Species | Content |
| fragrans I. Verd. | |
| sp. cf. violacea Harv. | Description, Image |
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