Plant in full sun to light shade with little to occasional irrigation – is drought tolerant. Hardy to at least 25 F. The sap from the leaves of this plant has been used medicinally in a way similar to the Aloe vera gel.

Bulbine latifolia has a wide distribution through much of southeastern South Africa, mostly in the summer rainfall Eastern Cape Province, but also extending into the winter rainfall Western Cape as well. The name for the genus comes from the Greek word 'bolbine' and Latin 'bulbus', a general word for a bulbous or onion-like plant but is somewhat misleading as these plants do not have a bulbous base. The specific epithet comes the Latin words 'latus' meaning "wide" or "broad" and 'folium' meaning "leaf" in reference to the wide leaves for this species.

We grew this plant at the nursery from 2001 until 2012, originally from seed received from Kirstenbosch Botanic Garden in 1995. More recently we switched to growing the very similar but what we think even more attractive Bulbine natalensis, though we note that Bulbine natalensis is often listed as a synonym for Bulbine latifolia var. latifolia, such as in the Royal Botanic Garden Kew's database at Plants of the World Online. To us these two plants seem different with the plant we list as Bulbine natalensis being more robust and forming larger colonies. 

Information displayed on this page about Bulbine latifolia is based on our research conducted about this plant in our nursery library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include our own observations made about it as it has grown in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also include comments received from others and welcome hearing from anyone who has information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information aiding others to better grow it.