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Chlorophytum malabaricum

A monsoon geophyte from the Western Ghats of India. It comes up with the June rains, flowers during the monsoon, and then dies back to its fleshy roots for a long, sunny dry season. The key to growing it is a very wet, mild summer followed by a fully dry winter rest.

Chlorophytum malabaricum
Photo: Dinesh Valke from Thane, India, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
At home, aim for
Day IntermediateTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Humid airBand in Plantistry
Light Bright, filtered lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
Expects a seasonal restGrows in the ground

Where it grows wild

Like other Western Ghats Chlorophytum, it probably grows in grassy slopes, open plateaus and forest margins that flood with water in the monsoon and bake dry afterwards. This is generalised from the genus in the region.

Few records carry an elevation. The climate sites lie at about 530 to 1,810 m in the Ghats.

India (Western Ghats)

🔒 Growing it like that

The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates
✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it
✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light
✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it
✓ Substrate and airflow
✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

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Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, used under its CC BY-SA 2.0 licence, unmodified.