Brunsvigia radulosa

 Brunsvigia radulosa is commonly known as the candelabra flower, sometimes the eastern candelabra. It is a bulbous, summer growing, winter deciduous perennial reaching 80 cm in height when flowering. 

Flowering in rocky grassland while still leafless in January, this umbel is extending its bloomtime: The older, lower flowers that opened first are gone, their ovaries swollen or swelling into triangular, club-shaped fruits on elongated pedicels, while later flowers are still reaching their peak. Such a hemispherical umbel of B. radulosa bears from 30 to 75 flowers, becoming from 48 cm to 72 cm in diameter. The inflorescence may reach a height of 80 cm.

The species distribution is widespread in southern Africa, mainly in the eastern and central parts of South African. The only province in which the species is not recorded is Limpopo. It is also found in Lesotho, Swaziland and southern Botswana.

The habitat is open grassland in the summer rainfall region, sometimes in rocky places. The plants appear solitary or in colonies varying in size. The habitat population is deemed of least concern early in the twenty first century (Duncan, et al, 2016; Pooley, 1998; iNaturalist; http://redlist.sanbi.org).