5 Things I Note About Oxalis Triangularis

You may or may not have come across this plant before.

1. An oxalis triangularis is also known as false shamrock plant or purple shamrock.
2. It is a bulb type flowering plant. My neighbour gave me a pot and it only has 2 bulbs. After a year of having it, I took it out of the pot. Split the clump and realised that I then have 6 bulbs. (Love how it multiply so fast!) Since then, I re-pot it every year and currently has 4 pots! All you need to do is gently separate each bulb . I placed about 4 bulbs in a new pot. My pot is quite small, about the size of my palm.
3. It is a photophilic plant which means the leaves open and close in response to light. I placed mine in my kitchen and only requires filtered sun.
4. All of our oxalis trinagularis go dormant during winter and I will keep it at the back of my plant shelf. I start watering in spring.
5. I read that this is poisonous to pets. Both Muffin and Army (my two furbabies) are not at all interested in any of my plants so I am not too worried where I placed them. If you have any pets, just be mindful of this.

Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul.

Linda Solegato, pseudonym Terri Guillemets