Ferraria divaricata leaves

The overlapping leaf sheathes of Ferraria divaricata usually conceal the plant’s short stem that emerges annually from the subterranean corm. The corms grow annually on top of older ones, accumulating in a string.

The sword-shaped to abruptly upcurving leaves may vary notably in length. Their tips may be acutely pointed, rounded or in-curving. The smooth blades are blue-grey in colour with visible parallel veins and sometimes whitish margins as in the photo.

In picture different stems have grown in a clump from different corms (Le Roux, et al, 2005; Leistner, (Ed.), 2000; Manning and Goldblatt, 1996; iNaturalist).