Learning about the squill plant

• Author: ITSIK MAROM
• Published date: 25 September 2021
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

Squill is a lovely impressive plant that grows high and develops columns of white flowers. The plant is a geophyte, surviving underground as a circular bulb that can grow to 20 cm. in diameter and weigh up to a kg. This bulb stabilizes itself safely with strong and long roots that can dig 3 to 4 m. down deep.

With the shortening daylight, the bulb shoots out a long flowering stem that can easily reach 1.5 m. In September, dozens of small white flowers open first from the lower part of the stem upward. It happens daily and in sections. Every day a section of flowers bloom, survives one day and the next morning a higher segment blossoms.

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