Dipcadi viride, Mukuvisi Woodlands, Harare, Zimbabwe

Dipcadi viride (L.) Moench

Dainty Green Bells, Green Daintybells

Climate known 117 photographs Bulb, tuber or caudex

Every figure on this page is derived from public data by a stated rule and says its source; nothing here is written by a person or a model, except the Wikipedia passage, which is quoted and marked as such. How it is made.

About the genus · Dipcadi

Dipcadi is a genus of bulbous flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae. It is widely distributed, occurring in southern Europe, most of Africa and the Middle East through to the Indian subcontinent.

Text from Wikipedia, “Dipcadi”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family

Asparagaceae

Described by

(L.) Moench

Native to

Benin, Burkina, Ghana +39

Wild records

724 in range· 552 open

At a glance

Warmest month

28°C

Jan, mean day; nights 17 °C (CHELSA)

Rain

663mm/yr

8 wet months · peak Jan 108 mm (CHELSA)

Light

25–41DLI

mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)

In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person

Grouped as a bulb, tuber or caudex by the genus Dipcadi, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). Rain rule: a summer growing season, May to September in the northern hemisphere (November to March at the habitat, southern). Habitat rain 663 mm a year, wettest January at 108 mm, driest July at 10 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 25 to 41 mol/m²/day. Cold floor 5.4 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as ? viride L.; Albuca hyacinthoides Chiov.; Albuca hyacinthoides Chiov. ex Chiarugi; Dipcadi arenarium Baker; Dipcadi bussei Dammer and 45 more.

Cultivation

Grouped as a bulb, tuber or caudex by the genus Dipcadi, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum; the cold floor is the habitat's alone, and no prose comes from the table.

Its year Rain rule: a summer growing season, May to September in the northern hemisphere (November to March at the habitat, southern).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the year's rain (469 mm of 663 mm) falls in November to March, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 21.8 °C against a yearly mean of 18.8 °C). Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: May to September.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 663 mm a year, wettest January at 108 mm, driest July at 10 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

663 mm a year at the habitat, 469 mm of it November to March. Wettest month January at 108 mm, driest July at 10 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 314 mm to 1189 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 25 to 41 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 25 to 41 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 20, the highest 90th-percentile month 51).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor 5.4 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is 5.4 °C, the absolute minimum 1.5 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 37.9 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 7.0 °C in July (across the envelope cells 2.1 °C to 21.7 °C), warmest day 27.5 °C in January (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 5.4 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 51 to 57% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 644 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale

Figures by month

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Day °C	28 / 24–32	28 / 24–34	26 / 23–36	24 / 21–35	22 / 18–33	20 / 16–31	20 / 16–30	22 / 18–29	25 / 21–31	26 / 21–32	27 / 22–33	27 / 23–32
Night °C	17 / 13–21	17 / 14–21	16 / 12–23	14 / 9–24	10 / 6–24	7 / 3–23	7 / 2–22	9 / 4–22	12 / 7–22	14 / 9–22	15 / 11–21	16 / 13–20
Rain mm	108 / 2–175	90 / 3–163	80 / 18–141	42 / 19–106	17 / 4–109	13 / 3–76	10 / 2–129	18 / 2–150	26 / 6–114	68 / 15–114	89 / 6–149	102 / 2–167
DLI	40 / 35–49	40 / 35–45	36 / 32–43	31 / 27–41	28 / 23–39	25 / 20–37	27 / 22–36	31 / 25–38	37 / 30–42	40 / 32–45	40 / 34–48	41 / 34–51
RH %	57 / 41–66	57 / 43–66	57 / 45–65	56 / 46–63	53 / 45–61	52 / 46–60	51 / 47–62	52 / 45–64	53 / 44–63	55 / 44–63	56 / 42–64	57 / 41–65

Each figure is the median across the 644 grid cells holding the 714 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 2315:4220 (-25.775, 31.025). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 1.5 °C, 1st-percentile night 5.4 °C, 99th-percentile day 37.9 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 644 distinct grid cells holding the 714 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2315:4220 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -26.00_31.250, lapse-corrected -109 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 746 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.

Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

NativeBenin, Burkina, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Burundi, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Rwanda, Zaïre, Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Cape Provinces, Lesotho, Namibia, KwaZulu-Natal, Free State, Swaziland, Northern Provinces, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen

Kew's description“bulbous geophyte” · “seasonally dry tropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here

Map marker-25.74, 28.254 · in the densest population, 293 records (40% of those in range)

Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 724 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 552 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 5 km away. 17 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 10 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.

The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 2° block of the 724 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

Photographs: (c) i_c_riddell, some rights reserved (CC BY) (5); no rights reserved · CC0 (3).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Dipcadi viride, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

In-vitro antimicrobial activities of organic solvent extracts obtained from Dipcadi viride (L.) Moench

Dunia A. Al Farraj, Mohamed Ragab Abdel Gawwad, Adeel Mehmood, Ali Alsalme (2020) · Journal of King Saud University - Science

Exploring the phylogenomics of Dipcadi (Asparagaceae, Scilloideae) and assessing the utility of ITS as a DNA barcode

Abigael Kitur, Brita Stedje, E. Wabuyele, S.B. Løken (2025) · Plant Systematics and Evolution

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