Albuca is a genus of about 60 to 70 species belonging to the Hyacinthaceae family. The most characteristic feature of the genus is the shape of the flower. The outer 3 tepals spread out like any normal flower, but the inner 3 stay more or less closed. The general appearance is therefore somewhat like a snowdrop Galanthus. The flowers do come in a limited colour range, white and yellow through to green, but are usually embellished with a green stripe down the middle of each outer tepal. Some species also have the tips of the inner, closed tepals coloured differently, either with white or bright yellow. Flowers are either presented in a nodding or drooping formation, or erect on firm pedicels (flower stalks). The tropical African species, on the other hand, have flowers on such short pedicels that the only position they can hold is sideways. Although there is not a great diversity in the shape of the flowers, there is however a fascinating range of leaf form. Some species do admittedly have rather uninteresting foliage; others have such unusual leaves that they could be grown as a foliage plant in their own right. Leaves can be boat-shaped, coiled into corkscrew shapes, or narrow and wavy like a slithering snake.

Albuca concordiana, synonymously known as Coilonox concordianum, Albuca aperta, Ornithogalum apertum or Ornithogalum concordianum and commonly known as Spiraling Spring Grass or Slime Lily, is a rare South African indigenous perennial flowering bulb that can be found in the Northern Cape and Western Cape provinces. It has flat, strap-shaped leaves and delicate yellow flowers, named after its flowers and its origin in Concordia, South Africa. When dormancy of the plant begins, the inflorescence appears and soon bursts open with fragrant flowers with bright yellow petals with a broad green midrib coming from the side of the flower stalk. The plant flowers August through September (late winter to early spring). The flowers are fragrant and face outwards from the stalk and usually don’t nod. The leaves emerge before the flowers in early winter from the ground in an unusual and mesmerising corkscrew-shape, coiling in a rather dramatic way, and are often withered at bloom-time.