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Zantedeschia aethiopica Spreng.
- Common Name: Calla Lily, Lily of the Nile
- Family: Araceae Juss.
- Country of Origin: South Africa. Locally naturalized in southern and western Europe
- Habitat: Wet marshy places
- Description: Robust marsh-loving herb with thick rhizome; forming a tuft of fleshy-stalked, glowwsy-green leaves 60-90 cm high, on succulent petioles; a stout basal stalk 1-1.5 m high bearing the large, funnel-shaped rolling flaring waxy-white spathe 20-25 cm long, surrounding a bright yellow spadix. To the visitor of the moister parts of the South African Cape it is a common sight to see whole fields of these beautiful callas in bloom during summertime. They are also found to 2300m in Kenya.
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 Accession Data:- Accession # 198500186
- Source: T&M
- Accession Date: 12-31-1985
- Bench: 1116 - AFR:Eastern Cape C
- Qty: 1 confirmed on 02-07-2012
Classification:- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Liliopsida
- SubClass: monocots
- Order: Alismatales
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- Family: Araceae
- SubFamily: Aroideae
- Tribe: Zantedeschieae
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References:Plants For A Future Website Exotica by AB Graf
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