Eucomis autumnalis | Pineapple Lily High Humidity Water: This plant is drought-tolerant

Water: This plant is drought-tolerant and prefers to dry out almost completely between waterings

Gymnocalyciums are native to the high deserts and rocky grasslands of South America

Once settled it is impressively drought-tolerant

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Eucomis autumnalis | Pineapple Lily High Humidity Water: This plant is drought-tolerantEucomis autumnalis, the pineapple lily, is the hardiest member of a genus that brings pure late season theatre to the garden. From a fat rosette of broad, bright green strap shaped leaves with wavy, crimped edges rises a stout stem packed with dozens of greenish white star flowers, the whole spike crowned by a tuft of leafy bracts that gives the plant its pineapple nickname. It is the exotic touch that keeps performing when much of the border is