WorldFloraDB - Conophytum bilobum

Characteristics

Robust, pomelo-sized cushions or subshrub, with concealed or visible internodes. Leaf-pairs succulent, up to 70 mm long, 30 mm diam., only partly fused, cordate to rabbit-eared in side view, apices keeled or rounded. Epidermis yellowish green to glaucous, pinkish, or ruddy, smooth from palpable wax plates, or shortly papillate, papillae sometimes arranged in fish-scale patterns, keels often red, fissure zone flanked by windowed patches. Flowers diurnal, large, yellow, rarely white or pinkish.

Life form

perennial

Growth form

Growth support

free-standing

Foliage retention

evergreen

Sexuality

-

Pollination

-

Spread

-

Mature width (meter)

0.3 - 0.2

Mature height (meter)

0.16 - 0.18

Root system

-

Rooting depth (meter)

-

Root diameter (meter)

-

Flower color

Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

-

Fruiting months

-

Nitrogen fixer

-

Photosynthetic pathway

-

Environment

Light
Soil humidity
Soil texture	-
Soil acidity
Soil nutriment	-
Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

Uses	environmental use
Edible	-
Therapeutic use	-
Human toxicity	-
Animal toxicity	-

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.

Mode	seedlings
Germination duration (days)	10 - 40
Germination temperacture (C°)	23 - -18
Germination luminosity	-
Germination treatment	-
Minimum temperature (C°)	-
Optimum temperature (C°)	-
Size	-
Vigor	-
Productivity	-