Chlorophytum blepharophyllum
A widespread savanna Chlorophytum ranging across tropical Africa from Senegal to Ethiopia and south to Zimbabwe, with leaves whose edges carry fine hairs. It is a seasonal geophyte of burnt grassland and open woodland, often flowering early in the rains, and needs a hot, bright, wet summer followed by a dry rest.
Where it grows wild
It grows in open savanna, wooded grassland and miombo woodland, often on seasonally burnt ground. It resprouts from fleshy roots after fire or the first rains.
Recorded from near sea level to about 1,800 m, with a median of about 1,120 m; the West African records cluster at 150 to 500 m.
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