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Purple Butterfly Plant (Oxalis Triangularis) Easy Houseplant

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Please find for sale 1 x freshly harvested to order Oxalis Triangularis bulb / tuber. This plant is better known as the Purple Butterfly of Purple Shamrock plant.

Quite simply this is one on my favourite plants - and why I grow so many of them! This plant is very hard to kill and will tolerate a wide variety of conditions - if it is unhappy it will give you plenty of warning before giving up - and even then it will almost certainly regrow from the tubers under the soil! 

My elderly mother has one on her north-facing kitchen windowsill - gets no sun at all but is probably the best one I have seen! It will also quite happily grow in the garden - in pots or the borders, reappearing again every spring.

The only real care thing to note is that I have noticed that they are not keen on too much direct sun - especially the mid day sun. They still grow but it causes some browning/discolouration of the leaves. 

PS I also sell the seeds of its rather pretty cousin, Chilean Wood Sorrel.

PLEASE NOTE: ALL ORDERS RECEIVED BEFORE 8PM (MON-FRI) WILL BE DISPATCHED SAME DAY

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Planting Guide 
  • Pot up on arrival
  • A small 9cm pot of moist general purpose compost ideal
  • Plant tuber about 2cm deep with the growing point upwards. 
  • Dont worry if you cant work out which is the growing end - simply plant it laying on its side - it will grow just fine
  • Keep in bright spot out of direct sun
  • New growth should appear in a few weeks


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