Chlorophytum tuberosum
A tuberous-rooted Chlorophytum of seasonally dry grassland and open woodland, from tropical Africa across to India and Myanmar. In India it is gathered as one of the 'musli' herbs. It sprouts with the monsoon rains, flowers with white blooms, and dies back to its fleshy roots for the dry season, so it is grown as a summer-growing geophyte with a dry rest.
Where it grows wild
It grows in grassland, open bushland and the edges of deciduous woodland, often on shallow or rocky soils that are soaked in the rains and baked dry afterwards. This is inferred from the measured sites and from related savanna Chlorophytum.
Recorded at 88–2695 m, with a median of about 1160 m. Many African records are from mid-elevation highland grassland.
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