#eucomis

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Monday 25 August 2025

Ideal for a summer container is the Southern Africa bulbous perennial Eucomis bicolor (pineapple lily bulb). The wavy, strap-shaped leaves appear in spring and then purple-spotted stems bearing racemes of star-shaped pale green flowers appear, topped with a terminal rosette of leafy bracts.

Jill Raggett

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

[drhoz]

#3703 - Eucomis sp. - Pineapple Lilies

Growing in a caged greenhouse at the Botanical Gardens. Presumably the triffid had already escaped.

The genus Eucomis was first published by French botanist Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle in 1789, based on a proposal by Swedish botanist Daniel Solander, who'd decided that Linnaeus's Fritillaria regia should be placed in a separate genus but died before he could publish that.

The name comes from the Greek for "pleasing hair of the head", referring to the tuft of leaf-like bracts at the top of the flowerspike.

All species are endemic to Southern Africa.

Christchurch Botanical Gardens, Aotearoa New Zealand

[faguscarolinensis]

Eucomis comosa / Pineapple Lily at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[morphons]

Eucomis 'Sparkling Burgundy'. August 2022.

[phytophiliac]

Eucomis comosus by Richard Ellis Via Flickr: Eucomis comosus is commonly called the pineapple flower. It is native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa. #Eucomiscomosus #Eucomis #comosus #PineappleFlower #CUgreenhouse #botany

[wdcgardener]

I am seeing Pineapple Lily (Eucomis) in gardens across the region. This is a bulb I haven’t grown myself. Have you tried it? How did it do for you? #gardendc #dmv #flowers #bulbs #pineapplelily #eucomis #picoftheday #nofilter #pineappleflowers (at Washington D.C.) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSozHKWr8mC/?utm_medium=tumblr

[myfoodsflowers]

Pineapple lilies ( Eucomis )