Clivia nobilis

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Traditional Medicinal Uses of Clivia nobilis

Indications: Administered to people only. Applied in a magical sense. Caution: Harmful to people or animals.

Eco-Gardening

Clivia nobilis is an evergreen, long-lived plant that produces an inflorescence containing between 40 – 60 pendulous flowers ranging from orange-green to red in colour. Flowers are followed by clusters of bright red berries the size of a marbles which take a year to ripen. The seed is round and about 6mm in diameter. Clivia nobilis is slow growing but worth the wait. (Wildflower Nursery)

References

Arnold. T.H., Prentice, C.A., Hawker, L.C., Snyman, E.E., Tomalin, M., Crouch, N.R. and Pottas-Bircher, C. (2002). Medicinal and magical plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 13. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria.

Wildflower Nursery – https://wildflowernursery.co.za/indigenous-plant-database/clivia-nobilis/. Accessed on 2020/01/06

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