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Eucomis comosa, the pineapple flower, pineapple lily or wine eucomis, is a species of flowering plant in the asparagus family Asparagaceae (subfamily Scilloideae). A deciduous bulbous perennial used as an ornamental plant , it is endemic to South Africa .
Most species of this genus are commonly referred to as pineapple flowers or pineapple lilies. They are bulbous perennials with basal rosettes of leaves and stout stems covered in star-shaped flowers with a tuft of green bracts at the top, superficially resembling a pineapple – hence the common names.
Eucomis vandermerwei is a short summer-growing bulbous plant, reaching at most 20 cm (8 in) tall. It bulb is ovoid, 3–6 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 4 – 2 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) across. Three to six leaves emerge from a bulb and are up to 60 cm (2 ft) long and 15 cm (6 in) wide, heavily spotted and marked with purple, with hard undulate margins.
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Eucomis pallidiflora, the giant pineapple lily, is a bulbous species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae, native to southern Africa (South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini). The white to green flowers appear in summer and are arranged in a spike , topped by a "head" of green leaflike bracts. Some forms reach almost ...