Watsonia watsonioides
(Bak.) Oberm.
Bugle lily
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Leaves, Corm, Root
The leaves, corm, and root are edible.
Where to Find It
It is a subtropical plant.
Africa, Australia, Eswatini, South Africa, Southern Africa, Swaziland,
Countries: Angola, Australia, 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. It is slender and grows about 1 m high. The leaves are usually a little longer than the flowers. The leaves are stiff with a hard midrib and edges. The flower spike is 30 cm long. Flowers are white cream or yellow.
Wikipedia
Source ↗Watsonia watsonioides is a plant belonging to the genus Watsonia. The species is native to Mpumalanga and Eswatini.
References (6)
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- Peters, C. R., O'Brien, E. M., and Drummond, R.B., 1992, Edible Wild plants of Sub-saharan Africa. Kew. p 35
- Ruiters-Welcome, A. K., 2019, Food plants of southern Africa. Ph.D. thesis. Univ. of Johannesburg p 69
- Swaziland's Flora Database http://www.sntc.org.sz/flora
- Welcome, A. K. & Van Wyk, B.-E., 2019, An inventory and analysis of the food plants of southern Africa. South African Journal of Botany 122 (2019) 136–179
