Gladiolus recurvus - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds acacia These are the same edible

These are the same edible buds that you can boil in water and eat the heart of the bud

Variety - Fordhook Swiss Chard

bean-like pod 5–10 cm long with thick disk-like seeds around 1 cm in diameter spaced evenly inside

Not common it seems to grow in small colonies

the sweeter it will become

Gladiolus recurvus - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds acacia These are the same edibleGladiolus (from Latin, the diminutive of gladius, a sword) is a genus of perennial bulbous flowering plants in the iris family. Sometimes called the sword lily, the most widely used English common name for these plants is simply gladiolus (plural gladioli, gladioluses or sometimes gladiolas). The genus is distributed in Mediterranean Europe, Asia, Tropical Africa and South Africa. The centre of diversity of the genus is located in the Cape Floristic