Coral Drops Guide: How To Identify and Grow Heirloom Coral Drops Flowers

Image Credit: Abraham Sánchez Romero¹⁵

How To Identify Coral Drops

Whether you grow Bessera elegans in a container indoors or outdoors, it is almost impossible to not notice it. Here are a few descriptors on how to identify it.

Coral Drops Leaves

The leaves of this plant are green, thin, grassy, and barely perceptible when juxtaposed with the vivid colors of the plant.

Coral Drops Flower

One undeniable Coral Drops fact is that it is beautiful to look at.

(Flower Image: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz¹¹, Leaves Image: Lyonothamnus¹², and Flower and buds Image: peganum¹³)

This plant’s flowers can be a fiery hue of yellow, gold, red, or burgundy. The petals are thin and lotus-like.

Coral Drops Seeds

The most optimal way to propagate this plant is by dividing its bulb-like corm.⁷ This plant sometimes sprouts seed pods but the seeds are almost always non-viable for use in growing.

Growing a Coral Drops From a Seed, Cutting, Seedling

The best way to grow this plant is to divide its corm and plant it like a seed.

A corm is a variant of a tuber, so you can plant a whole corm or piece of it and it will grow.⁸ You can plant the entire corm or leave a quarter of it exposed above ground.⁸

Best Growing Conditions for Coral Drops

The planting tips for Coral Drops are simple.

Use well-draining loamy or sandy soil for corm plantation. You can also use gravel or rocks as a soil medium

When to plant Coral Drops for the best yield? You plant anytime between summer and fall.

How long it takes to grow Coral Drops? It can take about 30 to 60 days to grow, depending on soil conditions.

The watering needs for Coral Drops plants is every other day for a month or two. After that, keep the soil lightly moist and water twice a week.

How far apart to plant Coral Drops? Space each corm about six to eight inches apart.

How much sunlight does Coral Drops need each day? This plant needs six to eight hours of direct sunlight daily, but can also grow in dappled, partial shade.

Coral Drops Growing Zone

What are the growing zones for Coral Drops? Where to grow?

Bessera elegans grows in USDA Plant Hardiness Zones 8, 9, 10, and 11. This plant will not grow optimally in any harsh winter climates.

The best place to grow this plant is in a warm or tropical climate.

Coral Drops Growth Rate

Bessera elegans grows rapidly in optimal conditions. Your plant could mature within a month or two after planting.

It could also take over 16 weeks for the plant to flower.⁹

Companion Plants For Growing Coral Drops

You can grow tubers, bulbs, and corm-based plants as companion plants with Bessera elegans. Such plants include the Chinese water chestnut, iris, arrowhead, and Mexican star.

How To Stop Coral Drops Disease

You don’t have to worry about Coral Drops disease prevention or common pests of the Coral Drops. This plant doesn’t have any pest or disease problems.

There is no need to worry about natural pest control for Coral Drops either.

Coral Drops (Bessera elegans) Facts

The scientific name for this plant is Bessera elegans.⁵ It is a herbaceous perennial plant that can live for several years if you maintain it well.

This plant is scientifically classified in classified in the Asparagaceae family, so it is related to lilies, asparagus, yucca, and over 100 other plants.⁶

(Image: Martin Bohnet (pmmGarak)¹⁴)

It’s an oddly beautiful heirloom plant that features lotus-like petaled flowers that droop when they bloom. As long as you plant them in well-draining soil, preferably in a container, this low-maintenance plant will thrive.

Coral Drops for Ornamental Gardening

Growing plants in a rock or gravel garden requires over 80% less effort and work from the gardener.¹ Almost 70% of gardeners think twice before starting an outside garden because of current inflation issues.²

You can easily buy the corm of this plant, a variant of a tuber, divide it, and grow it in a container or outside.

Almost 52% of American gardeners are suburbanites, homeowners who usually depend on the strategic placement of gardens, landscapes, and trees to beautify home aesthetics and increase home values.³ Many Americans resort to gardening to socialize with peers and to relax.⁴

You can grow Coral Drops as an affordable way to enhance your property values and improve your landscape aesthetics. This is a low-maintenance plant that does not require advanced gardening skills to maintain – you can grow it in a container.

Additionally, drooping coral drop flowers don’t look like other flowers and can help you optimize your socializing and event planning skills.

Coral Drops is a surreally beautiful drooping flower that will amaze onlookers, can affordably be grown in sand, gravel, or preferably in containers, and can deceptively enhance your property values and potential social standing.

The aesthetics of this flower will make onlookers believe you paid professional landscapers a fortune to grow and place them on your property. This plant grows relatively quickly and its attention-arresting visuals will garner inquiries and compliments.

Start growing Coral Drops today.

Frequently Asked Questions About Coral Drops