WorldFloraDB - Conophytum truncatum

Characteristics

Clusters up to 200 mm diam. Leaf-pairs succulent, up to 25 mm long, 25 mm diam., often half that size, cylindrical, apex truncate or convex, slightly bilobed and/or keeled. Epidermis greyish green to yellowish green or reddish, finely or coarsely spotted, sometimes streaked as well. Flowers nocturnal, scented, petals white to pale yellow, pink or smoky violet.

More

Flowers nocturnal. Succulent perennial forming domes to 15 cm diam. Leaf bodies 6-30 mm long, obconic to cylindrical, truncate, marked with tannin spots, sheath whitish, spotted, papery, persistent. Flowers nocturnal, tube white or yellow, petals white, grey or amber. Fruits 4-7 locular.

It grows in clusters 20 cm across. The pairs of leaves are succulent. They are 2.5 cm long by 2.5 cm wide. The flowers come out at night. They are white to pink and have a scent. The fruit have 4-7 sections.

Life form

perennial

Growth form

-

Growth support

free-standing

Foliage retention

evergreen

Sexuality

-

Pollination

-

Spread

-

Mature width (meter)

- 0.1

Mature height (meter)

0.01 - 0.02

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

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Fruiting months

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Nitrogen fixer

-

Photosynthetic pathway

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Environment

It is a subtropical plant. It grows on quartzite flats among pebbles and on sandstone ridges.

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Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

Uses	environmental use
Edible	leaves
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°)	-
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