Kniphofia grantii

Baker

AsphodelaceaeFlowers

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What to Eat

Edible parts: Flowers

The flowers are edible.

Where to Find It

It is a tropical plant.

Africa, East Africa, Zambia,

Countries: Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Botswana, Congo (DRC), Central African Republic, Congo (Republic), Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Comoros, Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Sao Tome & Principe, Eswatini, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe

How to Identify

A herb that keeps growing from year to year. It has an underground stem or rhizome that i1 1-1.5 cm aross. The leaves are in a ring at the base. They are 10-120 cm long. The flowering shoots are 30-120 cm tall. The flowers are greenish-yellow. The fruit is an oval capsule 5-7 mm long by 4-6 mm wide. The seeds are 3 angled.