Zantedeschia pentlandii
Common Name(s):
- Phonetic Spelling
- zan-teh-DES-kee-ah pent-LAN-dee-eye
- This plant has high severity poison characteristics.
- See below
- Description
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Deciduous plant with beautiful yellow flowers. These often grow in dense colonies among rocks. Needs full sun to flower. Leaves are green with white dots.
Not a true lily. The diminutive size, is set off by the beautiful yellow color of the flowers with purple blotchs at base of spathe. Works well planted in a water garden, along a border, or in a container outdoors or as a houseplant.
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- See this plant in the following landscape:
- Cultivars / Varieties:
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- 'Captain Odeon'
Red flowers - 'Le Chique'
Hot pink flowers
- 'Captain Odeon'
- 'Captain Odeon', 'Le Chique'
- Tags:
- Cultivars / Varieties:
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- 'Captain Odeon'
Red flowers - 'Le Chique'
Hot pink flowers
- 'Captain Odeon'
- 'Captain Odeon', 'Le Chique'
- Tags:
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Attributes:
- Genus:
- Zantedeschia
- Species:
- pentlandii
- Family:
- Araceae
- Life Cycle:
- Bulb
- Recommended Propagation Strategy:
- Division
- Country Or Region Of Origin:
- South Africa, Mpumalanga
- Distribution:
- Mapoch region of Mpumalanga
- Play Value:
- Colorful
- Dimensions:
- Height: 1 ft. 0 in. - 2 ft. 0 in.
- Width: 1 ft. 0 in. - 3 ft. 0 in.
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Whole Plant Traits:
- Plant Type:
- Bulb
- Houseplant
- Poisonous
- Woody Plant Leaf Characteristics:
- Deciduous
- Habit/Form:
- Dense
- Erect
- Mounding
- Growth Rate:
- Medium
- Maintenance:
- Low
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Cultural Conditions:
- Light:
- Full sun (6 or more hours of direct sunlight a day)
- Soil Texture:
- High Organic Matter
- Sand
- Shallow Rocky
- Soil pH:
- Acid (<6.0)
- Neutral (6.0-8.0)
- Soil Drainage:
- Good Drainage
- Available Space To Plant:
- 12 inches-3 feet
- USDA Plant Hardiness Zone:
- 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b
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Fruit:
- Fruit Color:
- Green
- Fruit Description:
- Fruit green, few in number, with up to 20 seeds.
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Flowers:
- Flower Color:
- Gold/Yellow
- Purple/Lavender
- Flower Inflorescence:
- Spadix
- Flower Value To Gardener:
- Good Cut
- Showy
- Flower Bloom Time:
- Fall
- Summer
- Winter
- Flower Shape:
- Funnel
- Flower Petals:
- Bracts
- Flower Size:
- 3-6 inches
- Flower Description:
- Diminutive size, beautiful yellow color with purple blotch at base of spathe.
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Leaves:
- Woody Plant Leaf Characteristics:
- Deciduous
- Leaf Color:
- Green
- Variegated
- Leaf Feel:
- Smooth
- Leaf Value To Gardener:
- Showy
- Leaf Type:
- Simple
- Leaf Shape:
- Elliptical
- Lanceolate
- Oblong
- Leaf Margin:
- Entire
- Hairs Present:
- No
- Leaf Length:
- > 6 inches
- Leaf Width:
- 3-6 inches
- Leaf Description:
- Leaves deciduous, up to 30" long, usually shorter than the peduncles, petiolate, petioles up to 15" long, clasping at the base; blade yellowish grass-green, usually immaculate (seldom maculate) oblong-elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, hastate, obtuse to acute, abruptly apiculate, up to 17" long and 8" wide. Z. pentlandii has immaculate (or very rarely spotted) oblong-lanceolate leaves, slightly constricted above the short, hastate, rounded lobes; the apex is obtuse (or sometimes acute) with a subulate, seldom recurving tip.
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Stem:
- Stem Color:
- Green
- Stem Is Aromatic:
- No
- Stem Form:
- Straight
- Stem Surface:
- Smooth (glabrous)
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Landscape:
- Landscape Location:
- Container
- Houseplants
- Pond
- Small Space
- Landscape Theme:
- Cottage Garden
- Cutting Garden
- Rain Garden
- Rock Garden
- Water Garden
- Design Feature:
- Border
- Specimen
- Attracts:
- Predatory Insects
- Small Mammals
- Songbirds
- Resistance To Challenges:
- Deer
- Rabbits
- Problems:
- Poisonous to Humans
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Poisonous to Humans:
- Poison Severity:
- High
- Poison Symptoms:
- Severe burning sensation and swelling of lips, tongue, and throat; stomach pain and diarrhea possible
- Poison Toxic Principle:
- Calcium oxalate crystals and possibly others.
- Causes Contact Dermatitis:
- No
- Poison Part:
- Flowers
- Leaves
- Roots
- Sap/Juice
- Stems
