Description
This is a deciduous, winter-growing species which flowers in the autumn.
The flower heads are a rich and intense scarlet and are some 12-20 cm across. The flowers are usually made at the same time as the erect leaf.
This leaf is, incidentally, densely hairy on both sides. As a rule there is just one leaf (as the name suggests) but rarely there may be two, where one has not yet died away before the new leaf appears.
This is very rarely seen in the wild in its native Namaqualand, or in cultivation, and it is thus equally rarely available.
It makes a curious loose-scaled and untidy-looking bulb, not tight and compact the way most species are – this is simply how unifoliatus is!
