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Eucomis autumnalis
Long leaves on this plant with a stalk full of light green/pale yellow flowers with small, green leaves on the end. "The single inflorescence is a cylindrical raceme atop a stout stem, carrying more than a hundred flowers, which are yellow to yellow-green in colour. The raceme is tipped with a tuft of leaf-like bracts, looking somewhat like the leaves on a pineapple top (the reason for the common name for this genus). When the flowers have been fertilised, the flowers turn green, making the inflorescence decorative while the trilocular (three-chambered) fruit ripens to produce shiny black round seeds." - Wikipedia
Planted in Balboa Park near the zoo. Native to "South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Malawi. " - Wikipedia
This is a bulb in the Asparagus family
How funny, I almost described this as similar to a pineapple! Thank you so much for the ID, joanbstanley!
Spotted on Aug 7, 2012
Submitted on Aug 7, 2012
