Babiana Villosa - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds Sweet Pepper red buds open to cream/green-white/orange

red buds open to cream/green-white/orange flowers in Winter

Dark yellow-green deeply channelled leaves with white spots

densely flower branched raceme

with sap and leaves typically bearing large amounts of tannins and condensed tannins that historically in many species found use as pharmaceuticals and preservatives

The plant is known to tolerate high alkalinity

Babiana Villosa - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds Sweet Pepper red buds open to cream/green-white/orangeBabiana is a genus of flowering plants in the Family Iridaceae composed of about 80 species. Most of these species (about 49) are found in the south western Cape of Africa, with the remainder distributed in Namaqualand and Northern Cape Province. The native range of the genus is from southern Namibia to the Eastern Cape to southern Zimbabwe, with one species from Socotra off the coast of Somalia (although this may not be a species of Babiana). The