Per Rogier van Vugt, the Head Gardener at the greenhouses at Leiden University and at Hortus botanicus Leiden, from Noordwijk, Zuid-Holla...Read Morend, Netherlands:
"Like a miniature Titan arum this Biarum davisii flowers without its leaves. It's native to Crete and parts of Turkey where it lives in a strict Mediterranean climate. This means dry hot summers and moist cool winters. It flowers in autumn before the leaves are produced so that the leaves don't hide the flowers and the flowers attract a lot of attention on a moment that very little is in active growth. The leaves will then stay on the plant until late spring when the rains stop. It's climatic preferences make that it's not really a house plant. Instead it could best be grown outside in areas with mild winters and kept dry over summer, or be grown in a pot that's placed in a cold frame or frost free greenhouse over winter."
Per Rogier van Vugt, the Head Gardener at the greenhouses at Leiden University and at Hortus botanicus Leiden, from Noordwijk, Zuid-Holla...Read More