Clivia seed

LATIN NAME: Clivia miniata

COMMON NAME: Clivia

The clivia is a handsome, evergreen, bulbous plant of the warm, shady places, and its fine, long, strap-shaped, deep-green leaves and its fine, upright heads of the many trumpet-shaped, orange or red flowers with the yellow throats have made it a treasured and fine plant of the room and the conservatory. It grows as an evergreen, bulbous plant, reaching up to sixty centimetres or so, with the many fine, long, strap-shaped, deep-green leaves borne in the two neat ranks and, through the late winter and the spring, the fine, upright heads of the many trumpet-shaped, orange or red flowers with the yellow throats, followed by the fine, round, red or orange, fleshy berries of the few large seeds. It is a species of the flowering plant in the amaryllis family, and it is native to the warm, shady places of the southern Africa, while it is treasured for its fine, trumpet-shaped flowers and its fine, neat foliage, and it is known as the clivia.

In the amaryllis family it is the trumpet-flowered clivia of the shady room, a plant whose neat ranks of dark-green leaves and bright winter heads have made it a household favourite.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The clivia appears in the warm-region plant papers of the southern Africa, and the botanists have mapped its place in the amaryllis family and the regional flora. The natural-product chemists have examined the compounds of the amaryllis family that the plant carries, and the horticulturists have grown the bright, neat form as a treasured flowering house plant. The plant is best appreciated as a subject of study rather than a casual remedy, and the growers of the room plants keep it in the front rank.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

In the room and the conservatory, the clivia is the orange-flowered plant of the shaded corner. Its trumpet-shaped heads feed the few insects that find them, and the neat, strap-shaped, evergreen leaves give the shade a fine, deep-green presence. It has become a much-loved flowering house plant across the world, and it grows well in the rich, gritty, well-drained pot soil of the bright, shaded spot. Orange-flowered, neat and evergreen.

The fine, round, fleshy berries hold a few large seeds — take the seeds out, sow them fresh and plump at a shallow depth in pots of rich, gritty, free-draining soil, keep the pots warm and lightly shaded and never let them dry out, and the first leaves will soon show themselves.