Chlorophytum bowkeri
A large, robust Chlorophytum of the summer-rainfall grasslands of eastern South Africa, Eswatini and Zimbabwe, with broad strap-shaped leaves and tall spikes of white flowers. It grows in summer and rests through the dry, cool highveld winter, which brings near-frost nights.
Where it grows wild
It grows in grassland, on rocky hillsides and along bush margins, in full sun or light shade, often in seasonally moist ground.
Recorded from coastal KwaZulu-Natal at about 550 m up to highveld sites at about 1,300 m.
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