Bulbine narcissifolia leaves

The grey-green, strap-shaped and semi-succulent leaves of Bulbine narcissifolia are flat and hard. In picture they are many, densely together in this mature clump of plants. In a solitary plant the leaves are arranged in a fan-shape. Some of the leaves are slightly twisted. The leaf sap is yellowish. Old leaves leave fine, decayed fibres at the base. The plant is stemless, the leaves growing directly from the underground rhizome.

Leaf dimensions are about 30 cm to 35 cm long and up to 2 cm wide, sometimes variably narrower.

Preserved in the specific name is the leaf similarity to plants belonging to the Narcissus genus, daffodil, jonquil and narcissus, indigenous in Europe and wider (Manning, 2009; www.plantzafrica.com).