Description
Described only in 1993 but known for 20 odd years before that. This is a very rare, new species known from the Drakensberg Mountains of South Africa.
There is a solitary, evergreen, hairy-edged leaf with a tight compact umbel of elongated white flowers, in the winter.
This is a rare plant and I stress that these are cultivated bulbs grown from seed set in cultivation. Although this seems a rather hollow statement as the locality from which the seed came is now under the flood waters of a major dam. Thus only two other wild stations now remain.
Happy in a well-drained, sandy soil and not at all demanding, in fact one of the easiest Haemanthus.
