Kniphofia pauciflora are extinct in their former natural habitat however a number of plants were found a number of years ago growing in a...Read More highly modified environment in mowed grass in the centre of the Clairwood racecourse by Prof. Snowy Baijnath.
This is the only "wild" population known which may be suffering from lack of recruitment and other intrinsic factors such as low numbers of individuals. It may be surviving purely by clonal reproduction alone as a result the plants only set seed in very small numbers.
Reintroduced populations are conserved in various reserves around Durban. The only existing wild population is, however, not protected.
These plants have taken very well to cultivation and multiply very rapidly. They make excellent landscape subjects being suitable as small growing feature plants, and bedding plants provided they get sufficient water. They also make excellent pot plants and bog plants for natural ponds
From a single plant collected by Prof. Baijnath large numbers of plants have been produced vegetatively and have rapidly spread around the world.
Please feel free to contact me for more information on growing this plant at michael@ecoman.co.za
Kniphofia pauciflora are extinct in their former natural habitat however a number of plants were found a number of years ago growing in a...Read More