Family | AIZOACEAE |
Genus species | Ruschia unidens (Haw.) Schwantes |
Bibliography | Z. Sukkulentenk. 2: 187 (1926) |
Native Range | Cape Prov. |
Primary Biome | Subtropical |
Habitat | sandy grassland |
Description | branchlets numerous, rigid, patent, leaves crowded, vaginate, curvate, triquetrous, attenuate, whitish, punctate, with single tooth, flowers solitary, terminal |
Size | 10-15cm |
Color | rose |
Bloom | late spring, summer |
Ca | |
Type | succulent subshrub |
Cultivation | sunny site with a poor, sandy soil alpine house, sandy soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring cuttings in late summer |
Synonyms | Mesembryanthemum rigidicaule Eckl. & Zeyh. Mesembryanthemum unidens Haw. |
Territory | 2 Africa 27 Southern Africa (CPP Cape Provinces) |