Plant in near frostless and shaded areas of your garden or grow indoors in containers. We have found this plant is hardy to temperatures down to 26 degrees F. This is a nice Clivia that has a longer flowering period than the later winter early spring flowering Clivia miniata cultivars.

Clivia x cyrtanthiflora is the name given to the first recorded interspecific Clivia hybrid bred in Europe in the late 19th century as documented by a description with an illustration of this in Louis van Houtte’s edited Flores Des Serres Et Des Jardins De L'Europe of 1869-1870 noting it the result of crossing Clivia nobilis with Clivia miniata. The genus was named Clivia in 1828 by the Kew botanist John Lindley when he described Clivia nobilis with the name honoring Charlotte Percy (Lady Charlotte Clive), the Duchess of Northumberland (1787–1866). The specific epithet comes from the Latin words 'cyrto' (from the Greek 'kyrtos') meaning "curved" and 'flora' meaning "flower" for its curved flowers. The plants we have sold since 2007 using this name are vegetatively propagated by division for plants originally provided by Ilie Gaceu from the Strybing Arboretum. We also grow a selected robust form with salmon-colored flowers that we call Clivia cyrtanthiflora 'Salmon Beauty' and two other interspecific hybrids, Clivia 'Orange Trumpet' and Clivia 'Tangerine Burst' that should also possibly be considered to be Clivia x cyrtanthiflora cultivars. 

The information about Clivia x cyrtanthiflora that is displayed on this web page is based on research conducted in our nursery's horticultural library and from reliable online resources. We will also include observations made about this plant as it grows in our nursery gardens and other gardens that we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in containers in our nursery field. We also incorporate comments that we receive from others and welcome hearing from anyone with additional information, particularly if they share cultural information that aids others growing this plant.