Bowiea
Bowiea is a bulbous genus of perennial, succulent plants which thrive in dry and desert regions of eastern and southern Africa. It is native to a region stretching from Kenya to Cape Province. The plants have many overlapping scales, which form a tight, pale green, spherical bulb that grows to 8 in (20 cm) above the soil, sending up a twining fresh-green branched stem with few linear deciduous leaves. Dormant in winter, when the outer scales and many of the scale tips dry to a paper-like state, the plants burst to growth in late spring or summer, producing one or more very fast-growing stems that needs to be supported by a trellis or stake. The stems are covered with many leafless side-branches that may fall off. The small greenish-white flowers appear in spring. The genus is named after t
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Bowiea
Bowiea is a bulbous genus of perennial, succulent plants which thrive in dry and desert regions of eastern and southern Africa. It is native to a region stretching from Kenya to Cape Province. The plants have many overlapping scales, which form a tight, pale green, spherical bulb that grows to 8 in (20 cm) above the soil, sending up a twining fresh-green branched stem with few linear deciduous leaves. Dormant in winter, when the outer scales and many of the scale tips dry to a paper-like state, the plants burst to growth in late spring or summer, producing one or more very fast-growing stems that needs to be supported by a trellis or stake. The stems are covered with many leafless side-branches that may fall off. The small greenish-white flowers appear in spring. The genus is named after t
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Bowiea is a bulbous genus of p ...... collector at Kew, James Bowie.
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Bowiea é um género botânico pertencente à família Asparagaceae.
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Бовиэя, также бовиея, бо́вия ( ...... распространён в Южной Африке.
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authority
Harv. ex Hook.f.
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Harv. ex Hook.f.
synonyms
*Ophiobostryx (Skeels)
*Schizo ...... iea kilimandscharica (Mildbr.)
taxon
Bowiea volubilis
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Bowiea is a bulbous genus of p ...... ng. The genus is named after t
@en
Bowiea é um género botânico pertencente à família Asparagaceae.
@pt
Бовиэя, также бовиея, бо́вия ( ...... распространён в Южной Африке.
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Bowiea
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Bowiea
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Бовиэя
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